Hi folks.
Are you a normal, well-rounded person, able to look away from the forum and not feel anxiety that you might miss someone posting? Congratulations, this topic is not for you!
I thought it might be useful to give a quick overview of how one can stay on top of selective bits of the new forum.
Discourse has a notion of threads having unread messages in them, but it mixes this up with the threads being interesting - sounds unintuitive, but works well (I find). My desire is to read all the threads in the General/Questions category, everything in bootcamp, but only those Meetups/Events thatâre near me. So, what I do is this:
At the top level of Welsh ( Welsh - SSi Forum ) , I click on the Dot in the top-right corner, which for me is blue, but will be grey if youâre starting out:
This brings up a menu of how youâll get notifications about new content:
If you want to be notified about stuff in this forum (all of Welsh), hit âTrackingâ. Now any time a new thread is created, that thread will automatically be marked as âTrackingâ, and youâll see it in your unread list ( http://forum.saysomethingin.com/unread ) whenever thereâs unread stuff in it, and in the normal view ( Welsh - SSi Forum ) itâll show with a blue number to show you how much new stuff there is. Note that this is for new threads only. Existing threads (such as those from the import, or simply those from before you clicked this setting), are unchanged.
Next up, there might be subforums in which youâre not globally interested, such as Meetups. In that case go to that category ( Meetups/Events - SSi Forum ) and click the dot again - now go back to Regular and new threads only in that category wonât be tracked.
âBut what if I want to track just a couple of threads?â I donât hear you cry, but will answer anyway. In that case, Discourse is quite smart and will automatically set you tracking a thread if youâve replied in it, or if youâve spent much time reading it, so you probably donât need to worry - but if you do want to adjust on a per-thread basis (such as stopping tracking a particular thread that previously you were tracking, that same blue/grey dot lives at the bottom of each thread and lets you adjust settings per-thread:
Also, if there are some threads thatâre super-important to you, you can choose to âwatchâ the threads from the same dropdown, and then youâll get notifications every time someone posts there. Useful for your home meetup group. Threads you start will be watched automatically, but you can change this in the normal way if you wish.
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