Gwibber

[wishlist] filters for incoming updates

Bug #395054 reported by Justin Mason
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Gwibber
Confirmed
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Hi there. Before switching to gwibber (thanks! great app!) I was using my desktop RSS reader to read twitter/FB, filtered through a script to filter out the noise from stuff I didn't want to read. Namely:

- FB updates from people I know as friends, but who are just too noisy in updates about stuff I don't care about (think football)

- annoying social apps with "twitter integration" (think FourSquare, https://twitter.com/nelson/status/2447392705 ):

    /I'm at .*bkite/

- people whose blogs I read, gatewaying every blog post into a twitter update (redundant)

  /New blog post:/

you get the idea. It'd be really great if Gwibber could support this, too; just a pane of regular expression textboxes, and if an update matches the regexp, it's muted.

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote :

Thanks for the suggestion!

This is another part of the categorization of messages that is a part of the post 1.0 gwibber roadmap, see: http://live.gnome.org/Gwibber/Roadmap#head-d34085d1b2cbb80bd89b17816e3b55fab76f9db2

Changed in gwibber:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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temsa (florian-traverse) wrote :

Instead of just "regexp filtering", I would see some kind of bayesian filtering, and language based too:

I don't like all of the messages of whom I follow, I'd like to tell to Gwibber that a message is "I don't care" or "Important to me", so a bayesian filter (or another learn based technical solution) would filter the messages to only what I would most probably care about.

I don't care about messages I can't read, but some of the people I follow post messages both in their mother language or in english, and I only care about english ones.

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Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24) wrote :

Yes, it would be nice to have possibility to filter some words / expressions and not see messages with them in our timeline :

Like Foursquare checks http://4sq.com - "I'm at" - "... journal is out" - Top stories today via ; My week on twitter: - I favorited a @YouTube video...

It would allow to reduce noise and focus on tweets / dents really interesting us.

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