@Splatsune said in The "Forum as a Fediverse Client" Experiment:

But as of yet I haven't figured out a way to view remote posts here.

Just wanted to note that after an update to the latest build, this seems to be fine now - I was able to search remote users and remote posts in NodeBB's search interface.

This is how this new old post from before this board was made now has a place.

Here's a follow-up post on the experiment so far. I've enjoyed the novelty of viewing the fediverse as forum threads, especially when some of those threads get moving:

And following folks that my instance doesn't know about yet has been... simple enough (/user/<user id>)...

But as of yet I haven't figured out a way to view remote posts here. On Mastodon (and similar places), copy-pasting the link to the post into your search bar will show it on your client. I can't do that with the search bar here, and while looking at a post's ID in a thread shows it as something like (for example) https://neurario.com/post/https://blahaj.zone/notes/9x2vcv8fkorq012b, and clicking that link will bring me to the correct post, NodeBB at the moment doesn't seem to know what to do if I decide to fetch a post it doesn't know about. It's entirely possible that it can be done in a way that I haven't found yet, but it's also possible that that functionality simply hasn't been built in yet - this is an alpha build, after all.

It's also important to know that as is, CWs do not function here- rather, are not handled at all. The content underneath is simply posted as is. To be fair to NodeBB here, the functionality for something like spoilers is not built into the software - it is a third-party plugin you can install. Similarly, if I try to hide something in a 'spoiler tag' here, the tags are simply ignored and posted to the fediverse with everything as is. That's fine, if I was not using it as I was.

The final thing which is proving troublesome is the advertised functionality of 'syndicating' certain fediverse actors to forum categories. The intent of the feature is to pull posts from group actors like Lemmy communities, other NodeBB forum categories, Guppe groups, etc, into specific parts of a forum. And... at least on this instance, I have not managed to get it working. It appears to try to send the 'follow' activity to the other instance, but it fails in some way, and because the error is represented as [Object object] (I assume a JSON response), I can't tell why it's failing. I'll try updating to the latest build over the weekend and see if that does anything to help.

Despite these current shortcomings, I am enjoying the experience. I still check in on my Mastodon now and then to try and keep up on things here and there.

I did (kind of) attempt to get a forum going for The General Chat, but it might just be that we've all drifted too far apart now. Or I need to try harder. Idk.

Not gonna lie, I'm very much 'over it all' at the moment.

Had a rough day at work yesterday where I started feeling that I was not doing my job 'well', not helped by the non-responses I was getting from the people I was working with, leaving me feeling as if I were being a burden on them.

I ended up just going straight to bed as soon as I got home, but it took me some time to actually settle down.

...Only for me to wake up four hours later and struggle to sleep anymore for any period of time.

On a day like this I'd like to just take today off and do self-care... BUT my area manager has already signalled their want to fire me for 'taking too much time off', sick or not.

Sooo... looks like it's either, go in, probably underperform, get a complaint and be fired; go in, have it turn out that I'm actually sick, and be fired; or don't go in, rest and look after myself, and be fired.

I'm so sick of my life atm.

@starcross@blahaj.zone I applied for a job in a similar environment but in a different field and somewhere only 3 minutes away compared to like. 35. If I manage to get it I'll be so happy to be done with that environment x-x

I just posted up pics of the completed bed!