Feature Wishlist

[knuxify]

The Punctum protocol is still very work-in-progress, and we have many ideas for different features. This issue serves as a simple aggregator for the most important needed features that have yet to be implemented.

To implement

(All of these will be standardized eventually!)

• Profile privacy settings (who can message an account, what information is shown to people who aren't in your friends list, etc.)
• Profile pronouns field
• Profile notes
• More advanced invite settings (auto-expire, privacy options like only allowing people in your friends list to join an invite you made)
• Competent audit logs (with ban reasons, etc. - perhaps we could introduce an AdminAction object for this?)
• Custom emoji
• "Last viewed channel by the logged-in user" variable for conferences
• Dummy users (for deleted messages, anonymous reports, etc.)
• Reports: 'creator' value
• Roles: 'parent_conference' value
• Instance: 'capabilities' values
• Emoji icons for channels and roles

For consideration

(These may be standardized, but some more thought needs to be put into their design first)

• Separate "about me" section visible only for people in your friends list
• Sub-accounts (separate nicknames on a single account; kinda like PluralKit but on a per-user level)

Technical TODOs

• Remove error pings; turn request pings into separate "actions"
• Rework client API; give it a real port, give it the ability to stream posts from a selected channel, give it the ability to recieve pings from the server about new messages in other channels/conferences as well as mentions (send message object in mention as well)
• Remove bot_owner variable
• Invite name -> code
• Drop permission 8 ("edit own messages"); replace it with "add reactions to posts", perhaps?
• Split off certain parts into "addendums"; advertise their presence in the instance's capabilities value
• Per-channel permissions for roles and members

Errata

• erroneous "note" variable in custom emoji objects
• conference_member user_id should be account_id
• change references to "numbers" to integers
• missing API endpoints for reports and emojis