Reshares

Ah, you meant the same post being reshared by many. There we can do one thing IMO - consolidate/summarize the reshared post based on post id. Example - Mr. X, Y and Z reshared Mr.M's post.. So, you'll see it only once (maximum twice - the original post and one summary).
Just my suggestion.

There's already a GitHub issue for this - no need for a vote, it just needs someone to create the code.

I think the neatest solution to presenting multiple reshares in the stream would be to display the reshare at the time of the most recent reshare, with links to 'Reshared by' and the names or avatars of the people in your stream who have reshared that post. Clicking the name/avatar of one of those people would take you to their reshare of that post in single-post view, with the comments made on their reshare.

I think the same as @goob. It could be something like that or showing the reshares folded (so you can open it and read comments with a click).

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It might be better to find a way to collapse reshares into a single post if you've already seen the post. The trick is figuring out how to accomplish that.

Something I had in mind for a wile.

The reshares quantity is sometimes huge in the stream. Group them causes the following problem : one don't know, when commenting, if he is commenting the original post or the reshare.

I've made this observation: frequently, when people reshare, it is just to spread an information. Hence, people oftenly want to comment it but want to comment the original.

The other point is that, a frequent asked question is that it is possible to modify a reshare (add text, or something). The answer is no, though there are scripts to enable this.

My idea is the following: there should be two type of reshare:

• the original one : simple reshare, no modification; the post is the same, it is displayed only once in the stream, all comments mae on a reshare are merged into the original one.

• the augmented reshare : this create a totally new post; one can add text above the original post, change the confidentiality, comments are separated from the original post.

The only thing I don't know is how difficult would be this to code ? I think this could be a part of the milestone for the next release after 0.5.

+1 for original resharing.

@augier : I like your idea of double share! Efficient way to address many annoying issues.

I suggest original reshare could be renamed as spread and augmented reshare as reshare (since people are used to it because of other networks) or repost (to make more obvious that some modifications are possible).

And maybe a pop-up with a click box "don't show next time" could explain things to make them clear to new users.