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The main map should be smaller or adjustable/collapsible

There's a double arrow that allows you to drag and drop to a size you like. I check how to make it collapse/expand entirely

Ability to show posts and comments together like on the search page

I initially had it set up like this, but was only able to do posts and then comments or the other way around. On the search page the comments and posts are automatically sorted by the selected sort type, but haven't figured out how it's done. I'll check if I can make it available still

Would it be possible to exclude comments with only one upbear?

yes and no. When I do an API call I get back an array of 10 (or less) comments. I could filter them but you'd have to still click "view more" to get a new batch of 10 comments where e.g. 9 could have one vote and you'd only see 1 more. My attempts at implementing an infinite scroller always ended up infinitely looping 😅 Btw the default sorting is "new", try if active or hot works better in the mean time.

Oh and some of the emojis are huge

Right now it's difficult to distinguish between emoji and regular . I'll give it a another look

I'm fairly new to development and haven't done any open source yet. I asked some of the lemmy/hb devs and will make the necessary steps. I like the idea of having to have an hb account a prerequisite from @[email protected]

It is already. Click on the Nexus tab, select prolewiki and click on any country

How does a post/comment get associated with a region? Is it a text based analysis of the post that picks out keywords?

When you click on a region, and depending on the regionscope (country, province, contintent, etc.) the string is passed to the lemmy-client-js search function (e.g. west asia, egypt, california). The posts/comments that pop up are just the search results on the string. At the very bottom of the lemmy integration you find the link to the search page and how the query works. I'm afraid it's just a fancy search page that is leveraging all fields you see here https://hexbear.net/search :)

Another thought, would it be feasible to show a timeline view to show which regions are "hot" at the moment and over time? I imagine in 2022 that Ukraine would light up (no pun intended), and in 2024 so would Gaza. That would be kind of cool to see.

That's a great Idea! Not sure how to be able to implement it. Lemmy-client-js would probably need to be able to take fromDate and toDate as a parameter on the search function if I understand your idea correctly.

I am a huge fan of your bulletins! If you're interested we can make them even integrate even better (e.g. the reading list, or if some countries are not showing).

Thank you for doing the bulletin posts!

Yes! Netlify was just something I used to get it quickly on the web. I believe @[email protected] is checking the external modules and would add it to atlas.hexbear.net (not sure if they meant to host it as well or just add it to the domain). I'll give you access to the github repo. Will thenetlify serverless functions have to be rewritten?

This is because the map tiles repeat infinitely, but the clickable layer doesn't. Unfortunately I haven't found a good solution to this yet :(

I am in favor of Open Sourcing such a neat project tbqh

Yeah I tend toward that too. Once I stall with development or know I won't be able to continue I will anyway at the latest and will make a post.

I didn't know GIS development is a thing and I will have to look a lot more into it. Looks like I've been reinventing the wheel. It's the first time I worked with maps and was just screwing around 😅

I personally dont like the overview map, i dont think thats really needed and if, than maybe smaller and without any labels

Do you mean the minimap in the corner or the entire map?

positron from CartoDB

I gave it a quick look and I probably should've used this from the get go. I will see how I can use this in this project (It's written in react-ts)

Zoom level about 7-1, maybe just make them clickable but invisible at this zoom

Thank you I will try to solve this!

Would use Esri standard or openstreetmaps or Positron with labels, it is less overwhelming.

It was a purely aestehtic choice (like that cloud layer that disappears when you zoom in) lol I updated the default to be OpenStreetMap

And a Idea that I think is really cool would be a point layer with pins of places that someone recently wrote something about on hexbear or lemygrad, maybe the last 24h. That way we would see at the first sight where is something big going on.

I have an Issue open for "Active Regions". I actually want the map to also auto focus on there and to be able to see a weighting of the entire map based on the amount of comments/posts. I'm not sure on how to achieve this, but could be if I receive amount of search results back from the lemmy-client-js api. e.g. Gaza Strip - x amount of comments and compare it with other regions

Hope that what I wrote was helpful. Thank u for ur great work.

Thank you it is! :)

Thank you @[email protected]!

To elaborate some more: You can either search for a place or click on it. You'll see various scopes: provinces/territories, countries, intermediate regions, sub regions, continent. You can click also on these to change the scope. What it actually does is send it as a search query into lemmy and you see the search results to it (I built a fancy search page). IN the Fediverse Tab you can select the instances, sort types, and other settings from lemmy. On the Nexus Tab you have a similar behaviour, just for the various modules. You'll see the wiki of whatevery is selected on the map :)

tldr: Attention [Pink]: Select an option [Purple] to reveal selected information [Yellow].

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. It won't be implemented.