"automatically watch threads in this category" option

[BenLubar]

Not sure if this is a plugin or what, but I would like a setting that, for a given category, makes every new thread in that category set to Watching until I disable that.

Use case: the staff forum. I always want to see new threads there, but often they get buried in the noise.

see: apxltd/what-bugs#156
/cc @yamikuronue @boomzillawtf

[julianlam]

Adding more stuff to here now? "Subscribed" maybe?

[yamikuronue]

Sure. Maybe turn that into Watching - Not Watching - Ignoring like the thread-level one

[barisusakli]

That's something entirely different than

but I would like a setting that, for a given category, makes every new thread in that category set to Watching until I disable that

[yamikuronue]

If you say so. It seems similar to me:

I never want to see anything in this thread | I never want to see anything in this category

I want to see this thread, but it's not particularly important | I want to see this category, but it's not particularly important

I want to see everything in this thread in my notifications | I want to see everything in this category in my notifications

[BenLubar]

I was thinking that the category dropdown would change what the default is for the topic if the topic hasn't been changed by the user.

So if the category is set to Watching, the topic would be Watching unless the user set the topic to Not Watching or Ignored. If the category is set to Not Watching (default), the topic would be set to Not Watching, and so on.

[yamikuronue]

oh, well that implementation is different.

[pitaj]

I see a few options here for category watch settings

1. "Watching", "Not Watching", "Ignoring"

   • Ignoring: new posts and topics don't show up in unread; no notifications from new posts / topics in category by default
   • Not Watching: new posts and topics show up in unread; no notifications from new posts / topics in category by default
   • Watching: new posts and topics show up in unread; get notifications for every new topic and post
   • Individual topic settings override the category settings; automatically set to copy category setting

2. "Subscribed", "Not Subscribed", "Ignoring"

   • Ignoring: new posts and topics don't show up in unread
   • Not Subscribed: new posts and topics show up in unread
   • Subscribed: get notifications for every new topic; new posts and topics show up in unread
   • Individual topic settings are irrelevant as category settings don't affect posts in topics

3. A combination of the other two

[d0dge]

My vote would be for option 1. "Watching", "Not Watching" and "Ignoring" is consistent with the way individual topics work so is a familiar concept to users, and not a new one to have to learn. Makes perfect sense to me, just an extension of the same system everyone is already familiar with.

[barisusakli]

#7109

[barisusakli]

Nvm the ask in this issue is different 😆