[Request]: In the notifications list view, do not show hyperlink URLs preview cards (and consider truncating text contents) for my own posts, to reduce visual overload

[nekohayo]

Describe the request

Tuba seems to have some notion of grouping notifications (according to the presence of such a setting in the prefs), but it still feels overwhelming not-space-efficient to me. Today I realized one of the reasons why, or at least, one way that the problem could be partially alleviated: every one of your own posts gets retranscribed in full for every notification, including the URL preview cards.

Here is an example, with the thing just below each URL:

Here are my suggestions:

• Do not show the URL preview card in notifications. I don't need to see it multiple times like that, I already know what it is, as I posted it myself!
• If you want to go full hardcore "high-density space efficiency", consider abbreviating the posts to only the first line within the notification view? That way the contents can still be recognized, but you don't have them being 3km-tall repeating the whole contents. If you want to be fancy about it, maybe you could show the first 2-4 lines, gradually fading out the color of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th lines (or depending on the amount of lines).

I can always click/tap the individual notification's row item to view its detailed view, in any case.

Implementation Details

• This follows the GNOME HIG.

[nekohayo]

This is a very crude mockup just to illustrate my point with the example above, if grouping is somehow not technically possible there:

[GeopJr]

Do not show the URL preview card in notifications. I don't need to see it multiple times like that, I already know what it is, as I posted it myself!

If you want to go full hardcore "high-density space efficiency", consider abbreviating the posts to only the first line within the notification view? That way the contents can still be recognized, but you don't have them being 3km-tall repeating the whole contents. If you want to be fancy about it, maybe you could show the first 2-4 lines, gradually fading out the color of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th lines (or depending on the amount of lines).

Should this be the default? What if someone replies to you with a link? Maybe only hide it on own-posts by default?

I can always click/tap the individual notification's row item to view its detailed view, in any case.

Should clicking show the full post in place or open the thread?

[nekohayo]

Maybe only hide it on own-posts by default?

Yes this makes sense :)

Should clicking show the full post in place or open the thread?

I think opening the thread directly would be fine and more efficient, but if you want to make it a two-steps/two-clicks operation (first click expands, 2nd click opens the thread), I could understand that too.

[nekohayo]

I also just found #176 again now (which, for some reason, I was unable to find earlier today), but it could be argued that the specific case I'm presenting here, and its possible stopgap solutions (hiding URL previews, and maybe text truncation) might be simpler to implement than the "smarter" layout that issue 176 advocates for...

[GeopJr]

Yep, actually let me reply on that issue