(Minor) Notifications when your reply gets "Best Answer"

[Princess Luna]

Just like you get a notification about someone giving your reply any reaction or quoting/tagging, just extend it to Best Answer.

 

Has happened to me and others where you may have your reply get Best Answer and thus whatever you wrote solved OP's issue but you end up not knowing about it if they didn't reply back or reacted to it, often we do forget to go back to threads we were in to see the outcome.

 

Knowing that the thread got solved is always valid as a learning experience that whatever you suggested worked out and that this thread can be used for reference on similar thread afterwards.

 

Further on this line of thought, maybe also add a notification for the thread being solved universally to anyone following the thread, not just the author of the best answer.

 

Pretty minor thing, nothing more to it.

[Guest]

Yep. There's a lot of merit to this idea. Especially the 2nd part since if my proposed solution didn't work, I'd love to learn from the one that did work.

[minibois]

In addition to this, getting 'Best Answer' should give you either a 'Like' or 'Informative' react too IMO. It happens really often the OP selects someone's answer and doesn't react to the post..

Usually when a post answers the question, it was a helpful comment..

[Fasauceome]

To my knowledge, this has been proposed a few times before. I also suggested that as a patch to this, a "like" react could be automatically placed to give a notification as a stand in, and Mortis' response was "we're working on it" so it doesn't seem to be a priority.

[colonel_mortis]

It's been suggested a few times, but it isn't a particularly easy thing to change. It's definitely something that I'm aware of, and would implement if I had infinite time and resources (the notification - it counting as rep is another discussion with arguments on both sides), but it isn't high on my roadmap at the moment.