Advanced search with the ability to save preset streams.

I believe this is relevant too: https://www.loomio.org/d/R3zBvnfc/improving-and-expanding-hashtags-usability

I think implementing this is a really important feature, both in search and in the left-hand menu (i.e. what you call preset streams).

Some further thoughts:
- In search, all the parameters you list could be useful.

• In the left-hand menu, I think all one needs is the ability to combine hashtags together (i.e. to follow posts with #france AND #politics), and the ability to combine users with hashtags (i.e. follow posts from @Jakob on #Denmark).

• Currently, clicking on the "followed tags" label feels like being taken to a new stream, and clicking on one of your followed tags feels like being taken further to a new stream. It would be great -- as you suggest -- if when one clicks on them, they feel more like a filter on the stream than a link to a new substream. And (as in the previous bullet point) if one could have several selected at once -- so although I follow 20 tags I could get the stream to display only posts with tags #football, #vegetables, #coffee and then decide I also want to hear about #bread, but not about #football, so deselect the latter and select the former and the stream automatically reflects that. (and so on for aspects...)

Diaspora's functionality would be (even more) incredible if you could do these things.

You are right that is indeed relevant :)

My idea was that the left-hand menu should only contain these presets - this would be close to aspects which is also managed beforehand on the contact page. In many ways it would not be much different from aspects, only it would be wildly customizable.

• Yes, by clicking a hashtag or an aspect what you see on screen is actually a new stream. So in many ways this will not feel different from the current ui.

I really love the idea of using custom streams as a central concept in diaspora. :)

really like the idea of being able to build custom streams with filters and matching criteria

although check box filters for liked/commented in the activity stream (and reshares in the the post stream) would probably stand a better chance of actually getting coded

Yes! "check-box filters" was the phrase I was looking for. We already have it for "My aspects" so should be straight-forward for hashtags as well as for liked/commented.

With the current size and activity of Diaspora simple filters will indeed do. I guess that splitting "My activity" in likes and commented, is actually already a first step.

This proposal was not meant as a we-need-this-now feature proposal, but as a long term discussion. When Diaspora grow though we will need some kind of algorithm to sort in the stream, and this should of course be user-controlled. The combination of things already in the database like timestamp, aspect, tag etc. could take us a long way.

P.S. I wrote " the left-hand menu should only contain these presets". I still would keep the "My activity", "aspects" and "#tag". (My activity with a check-box option).

Sorry to BUMP this, but you haven't reached any conclusion whatsoever :-) I think it would be more productive on Loomio to end a thread with "Contribution needed" or "X/ Y is working on this feature", otherwise we're just wasting our time and we can converse on diaspora* or on Diaspora Forum, not necessarily here (I agree with @goob on this). That's just my 2 pennies. Long time discussions are just bla-bla, threads get buried and nobody cares to re-open them, except for a bloody naive enthusiast pseudo-philosopher like me ;)

People just know that contribs are needed and task attribution are made on github. ;)
Again : Loomio is only about to discuss ideas, not task schedule ;)

@augier while I agree with u, we do need to reach conclusions and send references to how the proposals were 'implemented'. That's what I mean by 'transparency' among others ;) I do hope I made myself clear.

@augier while I agree with u, we do need to reach conclusions and send references to how the proposals were ‘implemented’.

I understand but I said : this is not the place to do that, the appropriate place is on github ;)