Package: toot Version: 0.27.0-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debbug.t...@sideload.33mail.com
When viewing posts in a logged-out GUI browser and there is a need to interact with some arbitrary post, toot is nearly useless. All the toot interaction commands rely on having a local msg ID which may or may not exist. And even when it exists it’s sometimes impossible to obtain. It’s a serious hassle to search hashtags within /toot/ in attempt to reveal the local msg ID. If no hashtag exists & the user is unknown to the local instance, toot users are stuffed. The web client is capable of searching using the URL of an external post as the query. If a local copy of the msg does not exist, it is imported so users can interact with it. Toot needs this import capability. Running this: $ toot search "$URL_to_post" yields the response “nothing found”. Running: $ toot timeline --help reveals that there is no way to specify an URL to a post, only tags or the typical timeline selections. Ideally users should be able to run: $ toot search "$URL_to_post" and it should either respond with: “that post has a local copy with an ID of 1234…” OR “that post does not exist locally. Would you like to import it? [Y/n]” -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-19-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages toot depends on: ii python3 3.9.2-3 ii python3-bs4 4.9.3-1 ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2 ii python3-urwid 2.1.2-1 ii python3-wcwidth 0.1.9+dfsg1-2 toot recommends no packages. toot suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
