Muting or ignoring threads
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Is there a way short of ignoring an entire category of not having a new post in a thread show up in Unread feed? For example, I'm not really interested in the discussion between @scottalanmiller and @Dashrender regarding going to a university, but it keeps coming up in my unread view because they're very frequent and rapid posters.
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Sadly, no. You can unwatch to keep them from alerting, but you can't make them not show up in Unread.
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@scottalanmiller said in Muting or ignoring threads:
Sadly, no. You can unwatch to keep them from alerting, but you can't make them not show up in Unread.
Alrighty, thanks.
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@Kelly said in Muting or ignoring threads:
Is there a way short of ignoring an entire category of not having a new post in a thread show up in Unread feed? For example, I'm not really interested in the discussion between @scottalanmiller and @Dashrender regarding going to a university, but it keeps coming up in my unread view because they're very frequent and rapid posters.
Chatty Cathy's, the pair of em
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@Kelly said in Muting or ignoring threads:
@scottalanmiller said in Muting or ignoring threads:
Sadly, no. You can unwatch to keep them from alerting, but you can't make them not show up in Unread.
Alrighty, thanks.
Would be a good feature request for the NodeBB guys. There are threads that I'd like to not see as well from time to time. Just things that have a lot of discussion that I'm not a part of or whatever and they pop up constantly.
I think that the theory is that the alerts notification is meant to do what we want there, but in reality it is useless for that leaving a gap between truly unread items and "unread things that we care about."
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@scottalanmiller could be as simple as a check box
"IDGAF about this thread"
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@MattSpeller said in Muting or ignoring threads:
@scottalanmiller could be as simple as a check box
"IDGAF about this thread"
Yes, I agree. I think, though, that the problem is that NodeBB thinks that they already have this feature with the Follow / Unfollow check box that already exists. But it only affects emails and the notifications, not the Unread which is technically a different thing.
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@scottalanmiller said
Just things that have a lot of discussion that I'm not a part of
And where are THOSE threads exactly?
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@BRRABill said in Muting or ignoring threads:
@scottalanmiller said
Just things that have a lot of discussion that I'm not a part of
And where are THOSE threads exactly?
Few and far between
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@scottalanmiller said in Muting or ignoring threads:
@Kelly said in Muting or ignoring threads:
@scottalanmiller said in Muting or ignoring threads:
Sadly, no. You can unwatch to keep them from alerting, but you can't make them not show up in Unread.
Alrighty, thanks.
Would be a good feature request for the NodeBB guys. There are threads that I'd like to not see as well from time to time. Just things that have a lot of discussion that I'm not a part of or whatever and they pop up constantly.
I think that the theory is that the alerts notification is meant to do what we want there, but in reality it is useless for that leaving a gap between truly unread items and "unread things that we care about."
That's a very important feature in case ML is getting bigger. It should default to no alerting at all but let you subscribe to some threads. Exactly like SW. Everything else is a notification overkill.
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@thwr said in Muting or ignoring threads:
That's a very important feature in case ML is getting bigger. It should default to no alerting at all but let you subscribe to some threads. Exactly like SW. Everything else is a notification overkill.
I think that it does that. Both let you turn on subscribe by default or subscribe manually only.
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@scottalanmiller said in Muting or ignoring threads:
@thwr said in Muting or ignoring threads:
That's a very important feature in case ML is getting bigger. It should default to no alerting at all but let you subscribe to some threads. Exactly like SW. Everything else is a notification overkill.
I think that it does that. Both let you turn on subscribe by default or subscribe manually only.
Did you change the new user default notification to be off? At one point the default for new users was on.
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@JaredBusch said in Muting or ignoring threads:
@scottalanmiller said in Muting or ignoring threads:
@thwr said in Muting or ignoring threads:
That's a very important feature in case ML is getting bigger. It should default to no alerting at all but let you subscribe to some threads. Exactly like SW. Everything else is a notification overkill.
I think that it does that. Both let you turn on subscribe by default or subscribe manually only.
Did you change the new user default notification to be off? At one point the default for new users was on.
Default is currently email responses to subscribed threads, same as Spiceworks. Uses can manually change it to whatever they want. And they can change how subscribes work. Right now, if you respond to a thread, you get subscribed.
My feeling on that is that it is important for casual or new users to have it like that or they post and forget and they don't realize that we have responded or can't find their thread again. Those that are around a lot can easily make the change and customize.
I'm certainly open to other ideas, but I've thought about this around expectation and practicality and it seems like getting responses by default for new users is important.
Thoughts?
