Feature Request: Thread muting

[RaceProUK]

Apologies if this has already been requested.

Would it be possible to add the ability to mute threads? Ideally in such a way that they won't show on the Unread list, though you could view them on a special Muted list if you really wanted to, just in case you want to unmute in the future.

I don't have a solid design in mind, more a sort of vague concept. But I'm sure collectively we'll come up with something 😄

[ghost]

I think this feature is pretty important for power users. Once a new thread is created, I want to be able to decide whether I'm interested in it or not, i.e. whether I want it to show up on the "unread" tab.

[ghost]

BTW, not sure "muting" is a good description for the feature I miss most: I mostly want some threads to not show up in the "unread" tab. If I'm specifically @-mentioned in one of them, I might still want to get a notification. "Muting" would probably suppress those notifications.

Basically, my request is: Implement the same thread states (Muted, Normal, Watching, Tracking) as Discourse. ;) Muting is not super-important, but having the "normal" state (i.e. don't show updates) is.

[albertdev]

For those who have been spared from Discourse, here's what each one of those states does:

"Muted"

Topic is entirely ignored - the topic is visible in general views where you present all topics in a category but you will not get any notifications if a user replies to your post, @ mentions you or does anything else. The topic does never show up on the Unread list

"Normal"

Probably a misnomer, this one means that it never shows up on the Unread list. You still get notifications if somebody @ mentions you. This might be called "Normal" because this is the state a topic will change to when you haven't read it within the **x** weeks since its creation (this last bit can be quite nifty to save you from information overload when you went on a vacation).

"Tracking"

This topic will show up in the Unread list and will show the number of unread posts in all other lists.

"Watching"

Basically "Tracking" with the addition that each new post will generate a notification.

[RaceProUK]

You got Watching and Tracking the wrong way round 😉

[albertdev]

Already fixed.

[julianlam]

Definitely an issue, especially on large forums.

Related to #3128, so please continue discussion there 😄

[ghost]

@julianlam #3128 has been resolved in a completely different way, so can we reopen this ticket to discuss @boomzillawtf's implementation?