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How important are flairs? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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How important are reddit-style flairs for people? There's the raised issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317 which has it listed as a far-future, with questions as far as how to handle federation.

Personally, having at least an initial implementation done on a community level would be largely sufficient, with expansion to instance-wide being optional. The situation I've found most useful, personally, is sports-related groups with your favored team being your flair. This gives context to comments without constantly having to say "as a X fan"

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[–] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On /kbin there is an option to add a badge to new link/article (and separately to add hashtags). However, I don't know if it works. I am summoning @ernest - are badges flair-equivalents?

[–] ernest@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed, that's right. This function is currently disabled to avoid complications. I need to temporarily hide the form field. The badge defines a magazine owner, and once marked, it appears next to the title, providing additional filtering options within the magazine.