Repost feature

[Zauzolkov]

Basic info

This pull-request offers repost feature (#1).

Reposts are shown together with regular posts in consistent timeline.

Details

Proposed terminology:

• Repost – means only event of repost, without body of original post (there is only link to origin).
• Origin – original post, which can be retrieved by link from repost.

Proposed Changes

DB Schema changes: Add repost table with columns post_id, date_added and repost_uri (link to origin).

When timeline is loading, body and other data of reposts are populated from the origin, with addition of some metadata from repost itself.

From the user's point of view, "repost" button behaves almost like a "like" button, but it also adds post to timeline of user.

TODO

• Detailed testing is required
• Use CSS classes instead of hard-coding
• Better styling of "reposted by" badge?
• Compatibility with older clients?
• Bug: Like on repost is probably broken (it "likes" repost itself instead of origin post)
• Ability to hide reposts? Squash multiple reposts (by many users) into one?

Demo

screen-2022-11-20_12.40.44.mp4

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

This is a draft which is not properly tested. Don't use this modified client with your main profile! You should create a new profile for tests (or make backups) to avoid possible data loss.

ZeroNet demo page (expect seeding issues): http://localhost:43110/1AXjiwipCneqUXThCYHKnrCijyMsFBCN2o/