Choose what content to receive a notification for from followed members

[WaggishOhio383]

Just an idea I had recently. It might be nice to have a way to choose what kind of content to receive a notification for from people you follow. For example, when I follow someone it's generally because I want to be notified when they post a new topic or status update. However, I don't really need to be notified when they comment on someone else's post, or reply to a post they already made. It would be nice to be able to choose what specific things you get notified about for followed members, as I often get a lot of junk notifications from people I follow commenting on other posts. This may be too complicated to implement for all I know, or I may be the only one who cares, but I thought I would put the idea out there to see if anyone else sees it as interesting.

 

Or maybe I'm dumb and there's already a way to do it, but I can't seem to find it.

[zeusthemoose]

If you go to notification settings, there is an option for followed content. In there you change the settings so you do not get notifications every time someone you follow makes a post. I believe that is the extent of customization for following settings.

[colonel_mortis]

That makes sense, and has been suggested before. It's not supported by the forum software by default, but it looks like there's a plugin for it so I will look into getting that.

[colonel_mortis]

This should be working now.

[WaggishOhio383]

1 hour ago, colonel_mortis said:

This should be working now.

Would it be under notification settings? I can't seem to figure out how to change it if it's been changed.

[colonel_mortis]

12 minutes ago, WaggishOhio383 said:

Would it be under notification settings? I can't seem to figure out how to change it if it's been changed.

When you follow someone, you can choose what content to include

[WaggishOhio383]

3 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

When you follow someone, you can choose what content to include

Okay that makes sense. Works on my end. Thanks!

[zeusthemoose]

11 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

When you follow someone, you can choose what content to include

Is there a way to change the default to status updates only? Right now there are only a few members I want to be notified about all content but when I turn it on, it automatically marks everything for all the members I already follow.

[colonel_mortis]

On 1/4/2021 at 5:14 AM, zeusthemoose said:

Is there a way to change the default to status updates only? Right now there are only a few members I want to be notified about all content but when I turn it on, it automatically marks everything for all the members I already follow.

Not very easily, but I've found some bugs with the plugin that we're using so I will have a think at some point about how it could be changed.

[Kanna]

Yoo I remember when I had this suggestion