As pointed out by our moderator @design_RG There are two different ways to view Remote Timelines in QOTO and they behave very differently so its important to understand the difference.
The first way is Domain Subscription, you access this through your preferences under the follower section. Using these settings you can create special lists that pull in an instances local timeline. When you use this setting the list starts empty and it populates it as QOTO sees posts from users from that server in our federated feed. This option may not show the entire timeline.
The other way is what Rob explains in the quoted post, is to go to a user's toots and click the properties button, from there you can pull up the remote timeline as a column in your local QOTO UI. This feed uses the remote instances API to directly to pull up their local timeline. You can even pint he column if you want to keep it. This has the advantage of being a more complete timeline but if the remote server has this feature turned off you may not be able to view it all. Obviously the remote server needs to support it, most servers do however.
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QT: https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103539941312259891
We updated the mascot in the lower-left corner of the web interface. Instead of using the Mastodon elephant it is now a drawing of some lab equipment.
I hope this helps remind people that everyone who comes to this instance is a STEM professional or enthusiast. We will update this from time to time with different STEM themes.
One of our moderators @design_RG wrote this excellent article on the QOTO discourse server that explains all the new features in QOTO along with screen shots and a detailed explanation of how to use it. Its worth a read if your feeling a bit confused:
https://discourse.qoto.org/t/qoto-org-new-january-2020-features-added-detailed-descriptions/192
For anyone not on the QOTO instance or doesnt use the web interface here is a screenshot of what the instance ticker looks like in the feed. Its optional and can be turned off by why would you want to!
The colors are based on what instance a user uses, red and yellow for QOTO, white and blue for mastodon, gold and grey for Pleorma. The icon is the favicon used for the server and updated every few days.
The QOTO instance ticker accidentally introduced into the other themes have been removed/fixed. Should be back to normal. Refresh your browser if needed, if your on the default theme or a ticker theme you will see the new QOTO colors otherwise things should look like the classic theme again if your not on a theme with tickers.
Enjoy!
Minor Update just went down to the instance ticker. The qoto.org instance ticker now has its own custom icon and colors. Since we are a significant fork from vanilla mastodon it made sense that we have our own unique colors to represent QOTO instance and derivatives.
Please let us know if anyone sees any unintended side effects or if anyone doesnt like the new change. We can always fix it.
We are back from a successful upgrade!
Only one new feature this time. We added Instance Ticker headers in the default theme. It is now much easier to see which server someone is from and what software that server runs beneath a persons name.
If you dont like the new default tickers and preferred the old theme you can set it in the themes to use the default theme without tickers.
Enjoy the new feature.
Sometime a bit later today we will do a minor server update. The functionality being addressed:
1) Adding instance ticker symbols below usernames to easily identify what server they come from (can be turned off)
2) Fixing the spelling from Qoto to QOTO where it occurs in the UI.
Want groups in mastodon? Just use guppe!
Should we add the color-coded server indicator from the #InstanceTicker themes into the #QOTO default theme (keeping everything else as-is)?
We recently significantly expanded the federation relays for which #QOTO is a member of. This will significantly increase the volume of our federated feed and as such improve results when using our Domain Subscription feature to subscribe to another instance's local timeline as well as account and keyword subscriptions.
We are currently a member of 14 different #fediverse Relays.
One last notice for the day. The #QOTO search index is being rebuilt. So while you can still do full text searches here it will be a day or two until you get full search results. We normally keep toots from he entire fediverse back to the beginning of time but you cant access it until the index completes. Please be patient and if a search doesn't give you enough results try back later and it should work.
This also may reduce the number of results you see in remote timelines you are subscribed to locally. As the index completes then these remote timelines should fill up more quickly and completely I believe. For now everything works just fine.
Let us know if anyone has problems or questions.
Another Update Notice!
We just reset the server again, last time by the look of it. The Simple UI is now fixed and the menu bar is back. Advanced UI remains unchanged and continues to work.
All updates and features appear to be fully functional at this time.
Enjoy!
What does everyone think of all the new features we added to #QOTO earlier today?
We have a fix prepared for the bug with the simple UI where the menu on the right isnt showing (advanced UI works).
We are backing up the DB and a some other post-update chores once those finish we will update the server again and the simple UI will work. We will update everyone here when that happens, until then please use the advanced UI as a work around.
We only posts announcements here and occasionally use polls to help us make decisions that effect our user base.
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