[frontend-only] Option to combine similar notifications into a single notification about mastodon

[deanveloper]

Here's a quick mock of what it could look like (just made with Inspect Element :P ). The "2 others" could expand to everyone who's favorited your post when you click it as well.

[deanveloper]

Interestingly, there's a <AvatarComposite> component that we can use, i think right now it's only really used for DMs.

Even more interestingly, it's imported into status_header (the component that renders "{acct} has favourited your post" unused, meaning it looks like either this was already a feature at one point, or it's a feature that someone wanted to work on but never fully went through.

[neatchee]

FediLab implements this and I'm a big fan. Definitely want this!

[deanveloper]

Even more interestingly, it's imported into status_header (the component that renders "{acct} has favourited your post" unused, meaning it looks like either this was already a feature at one point, or it's a feature that someone wanted to work on but never fully went through.

btw this is a lie, unfortunately I don't think we can use AvatarComposite for our use-case

[deanveloper]

Alright, I have something whipped up. Going to do some extra local testing and then create the PR into master for some review. So far, this touches quite a bit of code, so it might cause some merge conflicts whenever we want to merge upstream in. This is because I had to change the account property in notifications and statuses from a single object to a list of objects, so quite a lot of logic had to change to deal with that.

Also just noticed that now profile icons aren't rendering... time to figure that out ahaha

I also still need to implement the option to hide all of this logic behind.