RE: Programming Diary #30: Towards tag-following
I didn't find an easy way to identify all recent posts and replies for a given tag
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but it seems like there would have to be an API call to get posts with a tag ordered by "created" since that's something we can do via the condenser UI. (Unless the complicating factor is the "and replies" part, but are there guaranteed to be meaningful tags on replies?).
I think what he meant is that this is a tool that's trying to enhance the ecosystem as a social experience, rather than as a cryptocurrency farm. Historically, many of our developers have come from the blockchain/cryptocurrency space, so those aspects of the ecosystem have received much more attention than the "attention economy" portion of the ecosystem - even before HF23.
Yes. That (and the perception that those type of people know how to do "real" crypto dev work) has also led to a lot of the development activity being focused on trying to re-implement fads from other chains (NFTs, etc.) rather than working to develop the unique properties of this one. I think it also creates an expectation that the solution to the lack of dev work here is to wait for an outsider to swoop in rather than trying to cultivate the social environment here to be supportive. (For example, I would be willing to do more dev work here if 1. it didn't feel like I was mostly shouting into the void and 2. I could make enough money off of it that I could justify the time and energy it would take).
Yeah, it's the "and replies" part that complicates it. Most replies don't have meaningful (or any) tags. So, I'm going to look at the root post of all comments during the interval and get tags from that. Unfortunately, it's not enough to just look for replies on all posts that were submitted during the interval because replies can be attached to posts that were submitted earlier. If I just wanted posts, it would be simple, but I want the browser extension to find everything under a tag at all depths during the interval.
I suspect that the regulatory environment has been a big obstacle to development investment during the last 4 years, too. I'm hoping (🤞) that maybe we'll see more activity after January 20. We'll see.
That is really difficult. I can only justify it by defining it as an "expensive hobby". :-)