April 14, 2009

Added Stream Parameters

These allow more filtering on friend-activity stream (/stream when logged in).

New GET parameters:

noannounce
hides announce-type updates entirely from friend stream. (announce-type updates broadcast an experience state; ie user is watching title)
unspoil
adds announce to class, and does not include message in h3 tag, rather it is in the title attribute. (message can be seen by hovering over the item)
noself
show only friend/follow updates, hides logged user’s messages. Previously known as self=0

Other updates:

  • The stream now perceives and handles ! (group) and # (hashtag) operators accordingly with separately indexed tables.
  • Views and statistics on these operators are not yet built.
  • URLs over 48 characters in length are shorted with the is.gd service.
  • @ operators convert to inline links in message formatting
  • @ operators inline are not yet perceived/indexed in a table (the table exists).

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