When we filter by tag locally we request all messages with that tag from the public timeline with the poolid in question for that particular Thingamy instance.
But then again I might not get quite what you mean by "public timeline"... S On 7 March 2010 22:30, Sig Rinde <[email protected]> wrote: > Being the geek-in-training I think I might have misunderstood Anne... > > Not sure where we fetch from as we're using pools - and obviously when > we filter locally we use all historical messages from the pool. So > those would be nice to have. > > Ethan, I'm sure you know after the search you enabled last for us! > > (My programmer is at the pub so I'm only the half-wit messenger :)) > > Sig > > On 7 March 2010 21:46, Anne Kathrine Petterøe <[email protected]> wrote: >> As I just found out, there is another very important reason to keep the >> public timeline and that is thingamy. >> They are using it. >> >> So let's keep it - I also agree with what Darren is saying. A public >> timeline for discovery might not be so bad. >> We have decided to make the public timeline a separate page on the new UI >> anyway, so it won't be in the way for those of us who aren't using it. >> >> - anne >> >> >> >> On 7. mars 2010, at 21.31, Darren Hague wrote: >> >>> The public timeline can be useful in the early days of a microblogging >>> service, as I have recently discovered with the introduction of SAPTalk >>> at SAP. While there are only a few users of a service and the social >>> graph is very sparse, the public timeline is the easiest way to find & >>> follow new people. >>> >>> Once the service is established, the public timeline is much less useful >>> - but it's still quite a good way for complete newbies to get a feel for >>> what's going on. Without the public timeline, new users have a chicken & >>> egg problem to deal with - they access the service, see very few (if >>> any) messages, and wonder what the big deal is with all this >>> microblogging nonsense and don't come back for 6 months. >>> >>> Just my 2p, >>> Darren >>> >>> On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:51 +0200, Vassil Dichev wrote: >>>>> IMO we don't need it. >>>>> We have search and streams. >>>>> >>>>> On 7. mars 2010, at 17.25, Richard Hirsch wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Do we even need the public timeline? Or should it just be accessible >>>>>> via Streams Page. >>>> >>>> I've said before that I don't see much utility in the public timeline, >>>> and it also poses performance problems, as it's difficult to cache and >>>> doesn't scale well. >>> >>> >> >> >
