Interesting idea! I liked it so much that a new option to do exactly that is now available with version 1.9.0
Outstanding!! Thanks so much!
Hmm, I just installed the new version and setting excludeConversationStarters=”true” kills my whole feed, instead of just the one entry that starts with an @ to another user. (Site is https://og.treadingground.com – feed is on the right)
Can you send me the shortcode you are using? You can DM me at @w101@mastodon.social
I grabbed the info I needed from your website. The problem is that the mastodon API only returns the last 20 (or less if you set a limit) statuses. Because you are excluding conversation starters and replies there are no posts that can be displayed. I’ll add some text if no posts are available though with the next release to indicate that to the website visitor.
Nevermind… and sorry for spamming your post here 🙂
There should be some posts showing up…. what I said is only true if your last posts all were conversation starters… which is not the case.
Bugfix incoming
Thanks again for bringing this to my attention. Update 1.9.1 fixes this issue and is now available