How much can I extend an OrderedCollection?

Software NodeBB
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Just an idle thought... A common UX is users copying the URL in the address bar and pasting it into their fediverse app to load it in their app.

Right now if you copy a NodeBB topic (/topic/12345) and paste it into something like Mastodon, you'll get nothing because it is an ordered collection and it doesn't know how to handle it.

But... what if I passed in a preview property a la @evan@cosocial.ca's b2b8 and it contained a Note? Maybe a note with a different id? Maybe with a name?

Waiting for @trwnh@mastodon.social to tell me this is a terrible idea.

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@julian ideally, Mastodon should use `name` and `summary` for any unrecognized type

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@julian even more ideal would be if Mastodon could recognize that the collection was a Thread specifically, but one step at a time :)

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@trwnh@mastodon.social yep exactly that's what I was going for.

If you paste an URL to an ordered collection into NodeBB it'll try to load the thread. That'd be ideal.

But I will settle for understanding name and summary!

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@julian @trwnh dooooooo iiiiiiiiit

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It would be really great if you got something useful when you look up a NodeBB topic in Mastodon!