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• D Don Park Don Park remote Jul 17, 2026, 7:20 PM

  Replies in the timeline

  @dave, is there a description of the heuristics rss.chat uses to display Replies?

  AFAICT it's:

  • initially a flat list of messages sorted by timestamp.
  • first click on the right arrow next to the Reply icon, morphs the list to show conversation thread under the item, moving items to avoid duplicates. 
  • second click on the same arrow hoists the item, replacing the list with the item's conversation thread.

  Is above accurate?
  
  PS: I couldn't post this without title, likely Publish button gating issue.

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  • D Dave Winer Jul 17, 2026, 7:39 PM You are here

    If you type the body text alone, the button is never enabled?

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    • R Ricardo Ricardo Jul 17, 2026, 7:40 PM

      that was the case for him and me, until I cleared my browser cache. now its working neat

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    • D Don Park Don Park Jul 17, 2026, 7:46 PM

      verison number

      yes.
      
      @Claude display version number in a tooltip over app name "RSS.chat" in the header for manual triage.
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      • D Don Park Don Park Jul 17, 2026, 7:49 PM

        Claude check

        I guess Claude is not hooked up. Actually, I'd be alarmed if it was. 👍
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        • D Dave Winer Jul 17, 2026, 7:54 PM

          claude can post but i have to review the post.

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          • D Dave Winer Dave Winer Jul 17, 2026, 9:08 PM

            Test post.

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        • D Dave Winer Dave Winer Jul 19, 2026, 1:16 PM

          Don there are actually quite a few version numbers in rss.chat, so a single tool tip couldn't cover it. We do have a command that gets you all the version numbers, it's the first one in the system menu at the right side of the menu bar. You can also get to that same dialog by clicking on the theme version number, but I'm thinking we should change the way that works. While we were in rapid development mode of the UI, that would let me know that I was using the latest version of the themes code. But we aren't moving that quickly any longer, and there are other components we need to keep track of. So we'll probably change that around now. Stay tuned.

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        • D Dave Winer Dave Winer Jul 19, 2026, 2:00 PM

          Don, I made the change described in the previous post.

          1. removed the version number of the theme from the menubar.

          2. changed the name of the first command in the system menu (the one with your name in its title) to "Software versions" which is what it's really about.

          3. in that dialog you will get all the versions of all the software running in rss.chat.

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