Aaron Gray

Today I pushed one new feature:

• A Hashtag filter menu on the web view of a journal. On the same row with the Journal / Grid toggle, but aligned left, you'll see a '#'. Click / tap it to open a filter menu with all the hashtags used across all posts on your journal. Hashtags are sorted most common to least common; click one to view just the posts tagged with that hashtag.

Today I pushed two new features on the web side:

1. A toggle on the web journal that lets you switch between the full journal view and a photo grid view. Clicking on an image in the grid view takes you into that post, where you can see all the photos from that same post and open the photo viewer if desired.

2. Automatic hashtag recognition and formatting. The website will now automatically convert text hashtags into links so you can see all the photos on a given hashtag in one view. There's no special hashtag treatment in the poster app...just type your #hashtags inline or at the bottom of your post, and the website will make them clickable and generate hashtag views.

As a guiding philosophy, I'm building to avoid the tyranny of the influencer algorithm. I say that tongue-in-cheek, of course. But, the algorithm really can steal time from you.

With that in mind, there will never be an algorithm-driven combined feed of posts from different accounts. What I might do, though, is make it so that it's easier to find other Gestalt accounts you might be interested in, and allow you to add accounts you want to keep tabs on to a group or circle of accounts that you feel close to. The idea being that you can check in on them from time to time (still probably not in any kind of combined feed), so it becomes easy to curate an interest community without being distracted by the BS that takes you down a rabbit hole.