So here is a conundrum I'm facing with @pixelfed Stories, you can like, react or comment on them right, and those are sent as DM's to the Story author.

Makes sense so far right?

Here is the problem:

Once the Story expires, it's deleted, and when you check your DM's, you'll see the replies but since the Story was deleted you won't be able to tell which one it was.

So should we store a Story preview img, or rotate the Story so only author can see it?

Feedback wanted!

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Radu

@dansup @pixelfed for me both options make sense. I am leaning towards saving the preview, tho

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dansup

@pixelfed By rotate the Story, I mean rotate the media urls so the federated media urls are expired but the author can still view them.

This also means every Story would need to be stored after expiration if we kept it, or just a screenshot, but even with a screenshot if the beginning of the video is black, you wouldn't have enough context.

This requires some careful consideration, some people post a lot of Stories and the storage space could add up if mostly video

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Felix Neumann

@dansup @pixelfed

So for that specific problem, seems to make most sense to store the preview as kind of message attachment, so that it shares the same lifecycle as the message and will always be right there when needed.

That being said, a story archive totally makes sense, as these things are most probably valuable to the author beyond their 24h lifetime.

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chrishazfun

@dansup I found whenever a story expired on IG and I sent it on DMs I wanted to at least see a low res preview so I could remember the context, so I think story preview img would be best

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@dansup @pixelfed

That is how IG does it — but I never liked it, and always thought it was a poor user-experience.

I thought it would have been better to just keep the story around (even if other people couldn't see it) so you had context.

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Zbigniew 'Emill' Pławecki ♿️🎮

@dansup @pixelfed in this case I would do it as on instagram - if I'm the autor of the story, I can only see a screenshot from it and a reply, if I replied to someone else's story, I can only see my answer, everything else disappears

people that are going to use this feature are probably used to how it works right now, and storing original story for a long time in any form is against it's original idea

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Sarcassem

@dansup @pixelfed I would store a little preview PNG

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🐙 André 🐙

@dansup @pixelfed store preview and delete story. Storage is expensive 😬

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@dansup @pixelfed maybe we can give the possibility to "save" the stories we want : - those stories could be watched everytime, and for the others, juste an image as preview

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Kévin

@dansup @pixelfed Personally, a preview would be better. Stories are kind of made to be ephemeral and of the two options an image preview is the more ephemeral-ish

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Marco Maas 🥷

@dansup @pixelfed
Maybe just focus on bringing basic necessaties like #notifications and #editing, and bringing the app to their respective App Stores so the masses can start to explore #pixelfed ? 😉🤨 #PlayStore #AppStore

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Roland L. Taylor (RolandiXor)

@dansup @pixelfed I think it would be best to preserve the story for the author, but it should also be optional, of course.

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Cassandra

@dansup @pixelfed
If you're keeping the feedback en masse, there should be an identifier for each.

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