As I'm following more mastodon accounts, I find I want to enable notifications for certain accounts, but only for certain posts. Some that I follow do semi-regular guessing games or the like that I always miss until after they've already followed up with the answer, so I don't get to join in the fun.
@2ck When you go to their profile page, can't you turn on notifications for that user (the bell icon) to get the desired effect?
@trinsec no. that's all of their posts. at least it's supposed to be--i think I've missed some before or they came really late.
what I was thinking is they can use a hashtag maybe to highlight the posts. alternatively, if they could post to a group that's specifically for that thing, then I could get notifications for that, but it has less of the specificity of (account & hashtag)
@2ck Mm, wonder if you can do that with Sylus, check the CSS of their stuff (contains a text hashtag somewhere, contains their ID somewhere) and then colorize accordingly in your timeline?
@trinsec IDK. sounds hard
@2ck You familiar at all with CSS?
@trinsec yes, but what you're suggesting wouldn't do what I want anyway. too much effort for the wrong thing=too hard
@trinsec also, I don't know what you mean by Sylus
@2ck Stylus is a browser plugin that enables you to change a website's looks depending on the values you give it. It can be pretty powerful. I thought it could've helped you highlight a toot.
@trinsec I see. my problem isn't that I scroll past, but that I'm not even looking at my feed when the post comes up.
@2ck In that case.. maybe Greasemonkey, which then injects some javascript automatically playing some audio when certain criteria are met?
@2ck Do they use hashtags? I don't know if this is a thing but it'd be cool to be able to set notifications for specific hashtags.