Forum: allow users to subscribe to topics

[ShawnMcCool]

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[ShawnMcCool]

One thought about how this can work is, you just click WATCH (just like github, on purpose). It'd be a system-wide way of 'subscribing' to updates. Articles, forum threads, whatever.

You'd get an email once an update occurred. But, you wouldn't get another one until you returned and 'reset' the timer.

I'm trying to prevent as many user configuration options as possible.

[ShawnMcCool]

Here's my general idea of how this will work. http://screencloud.net/img/screenshots/a2360706ba40535cb318c7749e576b53.png

[anlutro]

Seems fine to me, though I might not want a list of all my watched threads/articles on the dashboard - that list could get pretty long after a while, especially if I don't bother un-watching old stuff that has gone inactive.

[ShawnMcCool]

I've gotta agree with that. Maybe an individual page for each type of watched item that lists a metric shitton and is paginated? The dashboard would only show the most recently updated or whatever. The stuff most relevant at that time.

[jasonlewis]

Yeah sounds good. I think having a single page that can be filtered/paginated that contains your watched items would be best. Would be even handier to have a button to unwatch something right there from that page without having to go back to the article/forum post.