This button would follow the whole forum of your choice.


Pros

• This would help you stay tuned to that forum and eliminate the tediousness of checking that forum every 5 minutes to see if there are any new posts.
  

Cons

• Too much spam?
  

That's why you should be wise on which topic(s) you follow. For instance, suggestions would be a no-go. Though, all the language forums and new scratchers could be something you follow.


Could be what it looks like:

yes, I know. bad mockup but I couldn't use inspect(?) because I'm on a school computer right now >:)

Following show and tell and TIMAC must be a pain

Definitely would be too much spam. I wouldn't care if this were implemented, but why? This would probably be like the “see unanswered posts” and “see latest posts” button, in my opinion.

why would you want to do that
have fun waking up to an inbox with like 100 messages
plus all of the normal activity

ipaddude wrote:

why would you want to do that
have fun waking up to an inbox with like 100 messages
plus all of the normal activity

I mean, to be fair, I don't think that's how the existing “Follow Discussion” button works. From what I can tell, I do not get one notification for every post made on a topic I follow. If someone makes a new post, I will usually get a notification, and then never get a notification again, until I actually view the topic and then someone makes a new post.

So, if this suggestion works at all like the existing “Follow Discussion” button works, then I could see this working without much spam.

Za-Chary wrote:

So, if this suggestion works at all like the existing “Follow Discussion” button works, then I could see this working without much spam.

But at that point it would practically just be a “give me a constant notification” button, especially if you choose a particularly active subforum. As soon as you click on the notification it will get cleared, and then almost immediately get added again.

I was thinking about suggesting this yesterday but I changed my mind. It's not that hard to check on the subforum and notification spam would be a huge problem (
“hey, there's a new post in QaS! lemme check it out!”
*answers question*
*leaves subforum*
“oh, there's a new post!”
*repeats cycle*
) so no support.

No support, there would be too much spam. People would just necropost and spam random stuff.

Support if its like the current “Follow Discussion” button, maybe it'll be like:
https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/1/unread/
and it will only work if new posts are created, not posted on. Thats why the “Follow Discussion” button exists, so you can follow a topic on a forum.
For the Mock-Up, replace “posts” with “topics”
This will combat the “necropost and spam” issue that GIS brought up.

BONK

Why would you want to do this? Just check on the forum every once in a while.

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

Why would you want to do this? Just check on the forum every once in a while.

thats boring. your taking this from someone who rarely views projects btw

I want this to be added.
bump

SUpport i bascally live in the forms and don't go on the main website and i need new post to do stuff

NotDucki_ wrote:

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

Why would you want to do this? Just check on the forum every once in a while.

thats boring. your taking this from someone who rarely views projects btw

It's really painful to occasionally check on a whole subforum for new posts if you really like that subforum eh?

gosoccerboy5 wrote:

NotDucki_ wrote:

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

Why would you want to do this? Just check on the forum every once in a while.

thats boring. your taking this from someone who rarely views projects btw

It's really painful to occasionally check on a whole subforum for new posts if you really like that subforum eh?

indeed. I swap through Suggestions, QaS (and HwS every now and then) to find theres not really any new posts

BUMP come on I want this to be added. I just occasionally chest the subforums for new topics and its so painstakingly slow and tedious.

gosoccerboy5 wrote:

NotDucki_ wrote:

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

Why would you want to do this? Just check on the forum every once in a while.

thats boring. your taking this from someone who rarely views projects btw

It's really painful to occasionally check on a whole subforum for new posts if you really like that subforum eh?

I will show you a magic trick.
It’s called,
*abacadabrca*
REFRESHING!
*applause*

sorry for bad mockup, you can't paste inspect element code outside of the current area

Support, I would use this for the ATs. If there are RSS feeds for subforums, why not this?