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Planned removal of the poke feature


Hi !Friendica Support,

This is a friendly notice that we will be removing the poke feature from Friendica in the upcoming release planned for September. This Friendica-only feature sees very little use and doesn't provide any real benefit over regular posts that can federate with more ActivityPub systems.

It's time to say goodbye to an odd bit of Friendica/Mistpark history.

https://github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/11837

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Content warning: Planned removal of the poke feature

in reply to Schmaker

I'm wondering about that too, I've never used it myself other that for testing purposes, and nobody dared to poke me either in 6 years of using Friendica!
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan @Schmaker Thing is, could as well just write a DM saying "poke" 🤷 and even that probably noone does, since it would be somewhat rude I guess.

In real life people would get angry if you walked around and poked them.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan I once or twice used it, over the entire time being in the #Fediverse, no miss on this feature for me. 😀
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Lol, i didn't even know that it actually is/was a thing .. funny..

No problems ... just poking around is ... yeah weird.. ;)

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