@blaze@piefed.zip has been asking for this feature for ages and @Skavau@piefed.social made an issue for it on the codeberg already. The reason this isn’t in the api yet is because it isn’t anywhere in piefed yet. AFAIK, the read/unread status of comments isn’t currently tracked anywhere within piefed. Additionally, for this feature, I don’t believe we track the timestamp at which you do interact with a post…so doing something like calculating the number of new comments that have occurred since you last opened that post isn’t possible…yet.

I don’t have a great idea of how to do this in a db-efficient way. Keeping track of when every user opens each post sounds like db-query hell. However, there might be clever caching tricks to make it a bit less computationally intense. @rimu@piefed.social would likely have a better idea of how to do this.

Mbin 1.9 just came out and lets users basically set a custom image to go with the link. However, the way it federates is kind of messing up lemmy and piefed, where they just think it is a link to the image only.

Looks like it since it came from fedia. I would need to take a peek at the AP json to be sure when I get a chance. The picture and the link come as two attachments, and PieFed just pulls the first one, the picture.

That makes sense! Thanks for the explanation.

option to filter comment search by instance

Does this mean to search only for comments from users of a specific instance? Or does it mean comments made in communities local to a specific instance? I wasn’t even aware this was in lemmy’s api.