Upgrade follow function

[podkall]

There are few reasons why we use follow, but such function could be expanded or a similar one added,

 

basically the idea is to get a notification after certain amount of time, maybe 24h or 12h after following the post,

 

that the post didn't recieve any comments...

 

You can see the usefulness of this clearly.

[CommanderAlex]

I actually like the idea. Sometimes I decide to follow a thread because it either piqued my interest or simply a first-time forum poster that doesn't know how to reply back to a post someone made. Going throughout the day where I don't get a notification that they replied back means I'd have to go through and see if I can recover the post. 

[LogicalDrm]

So reminder for threads that haven't received any new posts after certain time? Besides prompting you to go back and reply, what is the usefulness? You can see your followed content already, so finding them afterwards is not that hard. You can also set up custom activity stream for threads you post in, but don't follow.

[podkall]

9 hours ago, CommanderAlex said:

I actually like the idea. Sometimes I decide to follow a thread because it either piqued my interest or simply a first-time forum poster that doesn't know how to reply back to a post someone made.

exactly, it's like "oh yeah I know, but someone else might now even better, I might be mistaking something, this could be something very different"

 

9 hours ago, CommanderAlex said:

Going throughout the day where I don't get a notification that they replied back means I'd have to go through and see if I can recover the post. 

actually I would just forgot I even followed someone, even right now, I followed thread yesterday, guess what? no notifications yet...

 

29 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

So reminder for threads that haven't received any new posts after certain time?

yep

 

29 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

Besides prompting you to go back and reply, what is the usefulness?

explained kind of above

29 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

You can see your followed content already, so finding them afterwards is not that hard.

followed content isn't half the time needed if I see an update, most use case scenario, when a person doesn't quote

30 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

You can also set up custom activity stream for threads you post in, but don't follow.

oh I see, what are my options there? or is it self explanatory once I try to create one?

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, podkall said:

exactly, it's like "oh yeah I know, but someone else might now even better, I might be mistaking something, this could be something very different"

For this, my advice is to just post and be corrected. Probably half of people posting here will write anything even if they don't have clue about the subject.

 

1 hour ago, podkall said:

oh I see, what are my options there? or is it self explanatory once I try to create one?

 

https://linustechtips.com/discover/followed-content

IIRC you can setup it to send daily email digest, but that doesn't really achieve your needs.

[podkall]

8 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

For this, my advice is to just post and be corrected. Probably half of people posting here will write anything even if they don't have clue about the subject.

or have people look at post and see "oh someone else already replied no need to go there"

 

or "well this is very easy solution if it's already got comment it's hardly 30 minute old post"

 

[LogicalDrm]

Just now, podkall said:

or have people look at post and see "oh someone else already replied no need to go there"

 

or "well this is very easy solution if it's already got comment it's hardly 30 minute old post"

 

Yeah, thats the problem some people seem to have. Including, but not limited to, the "Recent snipers". Nothing we can do about people in that way. Personally I open every interesting post since I know people talk just bs or post for sake of posting.