💚 HELLO ALL! 💚
I have made a #Hellthread visualiser! 🎉
Use it on any toot!
https://beta.observablehq.com/@nuklearfiziks/hellthread-visualiser
(cc: @starwall)
@andi This is incredible, FINALLY a way to view my pain in an aesthetically pleasing way!
@starwall I'm just happy to have finally found a good use for ObservableHq 😂
@andi You have done a great service today. Lemme find the original Welcome to Mastodon hellthread...
@starwall Ooooh YES PLEASE!!!! 💚💚💚
@andi FOUND IT, it took a google search but I found it. https://radical.town/@starwall/101014720401270877
@starwall Hmmm! Yeah, I think the style the visualiser uses tends to be emphasis quantity of toots over number of people in them. I should do something like size nodes based on number of participants...
@andi admittedly, Hellthread 2 was way bigger.
@andi this is so cool!
@ponfarr Thank you!!! 😊 TBTH the hard part was more figuring out Mastodon's API than visualising the thing!
Feel free to fork it and try other D3 hierarchical layouts! Should be a way to get most of the ones in here running: https://github.com/d3/d3-hierarchy
@Quixote171 @starwall INDEED! 😄 (and thanks!)
(But mainly because I'm about to head to drinks and my mobile's dead 😓 )
@andi @Quixote171 You are a genius for this. A genius and a saint. Thank you again, this is epic.
@starwall @andi
And you can kinda watch it spider in real-time. This is awesome.
Hey, @Slipperywerm - check this out.
@Quixote171 @andi @Slipperywerm oh no, wait a second
@Quixote171 @starwall Thanks! Glad you like it!! 💚
@starwall @Quixote171 Thus far my best use of workplace 10% time ngl 😊
@ben @andi @Quixote171 this one is even more satisfying.
@ben @andi @Quixote171 here's @bryn's self-hellthread (https://radical.town/web/statuses/101060552212064380)
@ben @andi @Quixote171 @bryn and here's @nuttgodd's very interesting TL thread
@starwall @andi @Quixote171 @bryn @nuttgodd I mean, I *guess* you could call it a timeline thread.
cyrene 
@CyclopsCaveman @starwall @andi flirting IS natural and perfect
@andi @starwall i'm getting an error, am i doing it wrong? this is the URL
https://cryptids.online/users/spookcentral/statuses/101016314532203950
@scribblefrog @starwall Hmm, seems the API is missing a toot. It's worth noting that I can only visualise the toots that botsin.space have seen, and the stratification algo will die if it can't find a particular parent. Will try to build a workaround for the next version!! 💚
If you search for the URL of any ActivityPub object, the instance will update its record in the database.
I had to do that recently when an avatar refused to update.
@ben @scribblefrog @starwall Oh wow, that is really good to know — I can write some error handling for that no prob 🙌
@ben So, I have the local ID of the problematic status but not its original URL or instance ID. Any ideas? Worst case I can patch around by creating dummy objects but it'd be nice if I didn't have to do that.
does https://botsin.space/web/statuses/[the local ID] show or redirect to anything useful?
@ben Doesn't seem like it, appears to be a 404.
@andi probably a deleted toot or a toot from someone who blocks the entire botsin.space domain.
@ben Quite likely. Okay cool, I'll do some error handling that makes it show up as a like a white dot or something. Thanks for the insight! 💚
@scribblefrog I published a new version, try it now! 💚
@andi AWESOME!! It worked!!!!
@spookcentral hey your hellthread looks like this!!!
https://cryptids.online/users/spookcentral/statuses/101016314532203950
@scribblefrog @spookcentral It's definitely one of the cooler shapes I've seen!
@carbontwelve @starwall @Slipperywerm@radical.town Thank you! 😊💚
@starwall Comparatively, this is what @CyclopsCaveman's thread looks like. Notice the clown penis tangent...