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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So several things come to mind now that it's installed. A tips window pops up and will do so every 24 hours until I click for it not to. I read a few of them and realized I'm not in a reading mood right now, and fortunately it will come back tomorrow. But some things I need to write down.

1) The Welcome Tip Window could be updated to say "SaidIt" instead of "Reddit". Not a big deal.

" Welcome to RES, a community-driven unofficial browser extension for Reddit. You can turn on, turn off, or change options for RES features using the gear icon link at the top right. For feature requests, or just help getting a question answered, be sure to subscribe to /r/Enhancement. "

" If RES has enhanced your reddit experience, please show your appreciation by donating or contributing! "

2) In another Tip it stated the RES development conversation was happening at r/somthing. This made me wonder...

Is there a way to auto-mirror select r/ conversations on s/ ?

3) Going furhter, is there a way to overlay r/ conversations with s/ where SaidIt folks can participate in Reddit conversations without leaving SaidIt, perhaps in a serverside frame or whatever? This would likely require SaidIt users to share their Reddit login data with SaidIt unless it can be browser managed. Already this is complicated.

Why is this important and how could this be a game changer? If SaidIt can overlay Reddit, who's to say this can't be done for other things. Naturally SaidIt content would need to be very distinguishable from the Reddit content incase someone forgets they're in the "hypersensitive" Reddit zone thereby prone to censorship or worse. Other things too, for example, InfoGalactic is very inefficient by trying to copy/mirror the entire encyclopedia, but have articles that are a couple years out of date. Furthermore, they have ZERO indications whether you're reading a WP or a new uncensored IG article, so if you were to look at an article, unless it's been edited/forked or original you are going to get a corporate WP version, and even an edited/forked version my only have been revised in a very limited capacity. There are a lot of ways to treat/resolve this wiki issue, but this is not the place for it.

Naturally some people may not want the Reddit or Wikipedia at all. Solution: under preferences.

InfoGalactic and Gab may not want to "overlay" on Wikipedia and Twitter, and perhaps SaidIt wouldn't want it either over Reddit or Voat. Maybe it's a new overlay paradigm. Or maybe this is a stupid idea.