I was using favorites as a way to see a list of topics I am interested in following along with stats like the number of new posts and the time passed since the last post. I asked about way to list the topics I was ‘watching’ and was told to try the ‘favorites’ functionality.
Knowing that there is often more than one way to accomplish a goal (a list of topics I want to follow formatted like the favorites list used to be), please suggest an alternative.
tgauchat
(ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)
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The change came from the folks that manage the “Discourse” forum software.
It actually was discussed for over a year (I had no idea), and has to do with an overall argument to streamline the interface (even if that mean making it less usable, doh!).
There’s another post where I link to the relevant release discuss on the Discourse Discourse…
In brief, I think you’re supposed get what you need from the “Bookmark” indicator and filter.
I noticed this comment in the thread linked to by CosmicPuppy, above:
"Starred top level filter is removed (which can still be achieved with ?bookmarked=true or mods can add a “bookmarked” top level tab if they insist - default off)"
Perhaps SmartThings could add this “Bookmarked” tab for us? (I’m hoping this means it appears near “Categories”, “Latest”, “New” etc.).
Thanks @tgauchat. I misunderstood . . . so it was Discourse, not the ST implementation of Discourse that changed. It’s still weird. This issue aside, Discourse is a really fantastic package, I think.
Given the lack of action on this thread, I’d say no one cares. I see the bookmarks tab is turned on. However, what you get is not useful to me:
. . . . this view appears to be sorted by the date I bookmarked it.
What I think would be more useful would be this format:
I still don’t see a way to easily identify and track the activity of thread I am interested. I realize there are often multiple ways to do things but I’m just not seeing a solution in the current configuration.
tgauchat
(ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)
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Yea . . . I reviewed that thread you pointed me to earlier, @tgauchat. I don’t think I’m going to bother. If the ST community collectively thought this was an issue, then I think it’s job for the admins to take this back to Discourse. However, it doesn’t appear to be a big issue for the community. To me, this is just a dumb design decision in an otherwise brilliant piece of software - ends up just being one of those things that make me go, hmmmmm… . . . (there’s a song reference there)
There are plenty of other opportunities to crusade for. . . like, getting ST to handle temperature with a little more resolution that whole numbers . … .
I’d love to be able to click a button and get this list for the threads I am interested in where ‘interested in’ means:
I started the thread, OR
I posted on the thread, OR
I proactively indicated my interest by favoriting/watching/bookmark/or whatever.
If I become disinterested in a thread I either had proactively or passively indicated interest in, I want to be able to opt out so it is eliminated from this list.
@sam_saffron, are you associated with Discourse in some way?
Our plan around this level of customisation to the list is to use “search” and in particular something like “saved search”. Our first move to make this a reality will be a full screen search page.
OK. Cool. I think a ‘saved search’ functionality would be great assuming that search criteria could include the ones I mentioned (threads I started, threads I posted on, threads I manually expressed and interest in, aka favorite/watching/etc.) Discourse is a really fantastic solution otherwise.