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@manton - seeing this makes me think that the whole page that manages ‘sources’ in the world of ‘aggregate’ and ‘syndicate’ could be managed in a much better way. I am probably (again) an edge case - but for me it is a confusing cacophony that I have to recalibrate my brain for every time...

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@JohnPhilpin It’s not just you. It’s confusing. I don’t know how to simplify it without removing features or splitting into separate pages.

@manton In my dream world we’d have a graphical editor showing the web of “when I post to X, it flows to Y and Z via this protocol” with drag-and-drop editing….of course my dream world also includes you have a couple of full-time developers to put on this feature alone. But I do think you’re butting up against the limits of what can be done with just text.

@ffmike That’s a cool idea! You might have something there.

@manton It’s always easy for the PM who doesn’t have to write the code ;)

Don’t forget to animate it, so when I click on my Pixelfed server the paths light up in order…

@manton one immediate thought

‘Sources’ is doing heavy lifting.

To borrow from Dave’s analogy - if we are talking ‘a river’ - the source is where it starts - not where it ends up - so two pages OR two sections

sources - all the services supported that are out there - and we get to add whatever the links are

these are placed like an RSS feed or a word press blog of Lettrboxd or Sourcefeed or whatever

don’t need to list them all - but you could provide examples of which people might like to pull on

THEN - ‘destination’ - same deal - eg

Bluesky, Masto, LinkedIN et at

not exactly a finished work of art - but you’ll get the picture - and pardon the pun …

The dotted arrows might be what is possible but not connected - the solids are connected and working - green if working properly - red is connected but not working. I know I know - stretching the scope … and yes i recognise some nuances around this - different services pull and push in different ways

Some are names. others just feeds - but for me - allowing me to name the fee would be useful - particularly with something like AlbumWhale - where I pull a couple of different feeds in - BUT - that list COULD be 15 different ones ..

also yes - it might be that some services are featured on both sides - and that is ok

as a blogger - my thinking is not bluesky, masto, rss etc - it is where do i want to pull in from - and then what do I want to push out to.

@JohnPhilpin Thanks for the ideas!