> I disagree, or rather I think we're talking about two separate issues. > > 1. My current problem is that actions always tag the messages they > create with something like "Action_123455". I think they shouldn't do > this, as it is meaningless to an end-user and pollutes the tag cloud. > I'm not sure what the use-case of this approach is even for other > actions, as each one is different and seemingly unpredictable.
Actions don't explicitly tag the messages. The problem is the long-standing bug ESME-26- URLs are parsed incorrectly (hash sign breaks the url), so the anchor is interpreted as a hashtag. I had some doubts if hashes would clash with URL parsing, but since this bug seems to be popular lately and pops up in all places, I think it's high time for me to try to fix it. (I'm aware I've promised other stuff but not delivered yet...) > 2. You issue seems to be that certain automation users (or actions?) > ought not to appear in the public timeline. I agree with this need, > but I'm not sure how best to do this. Some actions should show up in > the public timeline. Maybe we need a concept that is neither a true > user or an action, but is instead an action that is started by and > owned by a particular user and which pulls in external events from RSS > feeds. For the time being, I think we're ok. The Jira items in the > public timeline are kind of annoying, but really only for me because > they are repopulated when the server restarts. Should we eliminate the public timeline altogether? I don't find much use of it either on Twitter or in ESME. I think we must be careful with adding too many concepts or things will become too brittle. For instance, imagine that we turn generated actions into some other type of message and we're suddenly not able to filter them from the personal timeline, which benefits keeping the personal timeline nice and clean. What you're offering actually sounds a lot like having the message generated by the action put in a specific pool. This is the only type of message which does not show in the public timeline. Then your followers will not be able to see these messages, though. And by the way the RSS action *is* "owned by a particular user" and "pulls in external events from RSS feeds" (did you mean entries instead of events?). I don't see what is the difference from what you want to promote- an action which is not an action? Would it be created/edited in the normal actions page or on a separate page? Vassil
