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Zap feed #1891
Description
Describe the problem you're trying to solve
I want to know what was recently zapped on SN as another way to discover content.
See https://stacker.news/items/247263 for some discussion.
Added needs specification so this is further discussed before any implementation is tried.
Describe the solution you'd like
The dropdown in /recent also includes 'zaps' as an option. It will then show a list of zaps with the amount + item but not the zapper.
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
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ed-kung commentedon Mar 12, 2025
I like this idea as a way to discover content with active participation.
Some feedback as a user: I didn't even realize there was a special dropdown in /recent until reading this issue. So this may not be a feature that many people would be aware of.
Would it be too much clutter to put it as one of main sort modes, along with /hot, /recent, /random, and /top?
ekzyis commentedon Mar 13, 2025
Thanks for the feedback! I don't use the recent filter much which might be a sign I also don't notice it a lot and thus a zap feed would easily get missed in there. But this should be discussed in a separate issue imo.
I think so, yes. Space is already tight, especially on mobile:
I also think that the main sort modes are the main sort modes because there is no overlap between hot, recent, random and top whereas a zap feed would include a feed of recent zaps so it should be under /recent imo.1
Footnotes
Maybe we could also have zaps as a category in top at some point. ↩
brymut commentedon Sep 25, 2025
Happy to take a shot at mocking this up if no one is on it?
Soxasora commentedon Sep 25, 2025
Given recent changes, I think we should base the Zap Feed on the live comments1 model.
So it should be able to fetch zaps every
nseconds, along with the necessary fields forItemInfo.The only concerning part is the fact that there could be a lot of zaps for the same item, and I don’t think we’d ever want the same item 10 times in the feed.
So this has to be connected with #2398 in some way. Maybe live reordering the feed.
If this seems too much, I’d recommend waiting for the live sats PR.
Footnotes
Live comments lacks a proper documentation, how it works mutated a lot in a couple of months. This will be addressed soon.
While live comments is actually as straightforward as it can be, you might still scratch your head on some parts. I hope I can answer every question you might have on it, if you want to give this a try. ↩
brymut commentedon Sep 25, 2025
Got it, I'll think I'll sit tight and monitor progress for now