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Shaharyar
Shaharyar

Reputation: 12449

Exclude a follower from copying an activity

Is it possible to exclude some followers when adding an activity?

Let's say user:2, user:3, user:4 follow user:1.

When any activity is added on user:1 feed, its copied into all it's followers feed (that' right, I know it).

But, if I want to exclude user:4 from copying the activity while keeping him the follower of user:1 (only in some special cases). Is it possible to do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 51

Answers (1)

iandouglas
iandouglas

Reputation: 4306

Unfortunately, no, our fan-out will always go to all followers when user:1 inserts their activity.

A work-around you could build, though, would be to allow the activity to fan-out to user:4, but then issue a delete on the activity in user:4's feed. This won't delete the activity everywhere else, only in user:4's feed.

Keep in mind that if you do these API calls back-to-back in your software, the fan-out may not yet be completed to user:4's feed, so the delete might silently fail.

As a side note, if you were to delete it from user:1's feed where the activity originated, it would fan-out that delete and remove that record everywhere else.

Upvotes: 1

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