PH Wishlist Item - Subscribe to OP within Threads
Discussion
Hello,
I think a good feature of PH would be a new ability to 'watch' a thread but have it only show up in your 'My Stuff' view when the OP posts.
There are so many threads on here, particularly build or other project threads where 90% of the posts are people asking if there have been any updates etc. The secret tunnels thread is a classic example. Most of us were only interested in the thread when the OP posted and got over excited each time it popped up in 'My Stuff' only to be disappointed when it was just another person bumping the thread. Flemke's F1 thread is another, I know plenty of people are happy to use it as a dumping ground for anything F1 related but I was more interested in Flemke's story of owning/crashing/rebuilding his particular car.
If I could subscribe to Posters within threads (perhaps multiple, not just the OP), that would be even better.
I'd be interested to hear any comments from others or answer any questions on my hastily thought about and described idea.
I think a good feature of PH would be a new ability to 'watch' a thread but have it only show up in your 'My Stuff' view when the OP posts.
There are so many threads on here, particularly build or other project threads where 90% of the posts are people asking if there have been any updates etc. The secret tunnels thread is a classic example. Most of us were only interested in the thread when the OP posted and got over excited each time it popped up in 'My Stuff' only to be disappointed when it was just another person bumping the thread. Flemke's F1 thread is another, I know plenty of people are happy to use it as a dumping ground for anything F1 related but I was more interested in Flemke's story of owning/crashing/rebuilding his particular car.
If I could subscribe to Posters within threads (perhaps multiple, not just the OP), that would be even better.
I'd be interested to hear any comments from others or answer any questions on my hastily thought about and described idea.
Shaw Tarse said:
the techies are a bit busy at the moment.
Yeah I did wonder if that was the case.However I was also looking to see if anyone else agreed with me that it would be a feature that they would want/use.
It can't just be me that see's a favourite thread (e.g. the V8 LexSpace thread) pop up in 'My Stuff' only to be disappointed that the only update is someone saying "+1" or "Great work".
Switch said:
Hi there. You did not assume incorrectly. We're just very busy and sometimes miss things.
In short, no, there's no easy way to do this. largely because of the size of the database, it would broadly speaking require a search of all posts within a topic, rather than the current system which only looks at a topic last reply field.
Given the sorts of topics you're talking about (Nazi bunker for instance) the added load on the db (searching 100's of post rather than a single row(per watched topic in my stuff)) would be prohibitive I'm sorry to say.
Thanks for the reply.In short, no, there's no easy way to do this. largely because of the size of the database, it would broadly speaking require a search of all posts within a topic, rather than the current system which only looks at a topic last reply field.
Given the sorts of topics you're talking about (Nazi bunker for instance) the added load on the db (searching 100's of post rather than a single row(per watched topic in my stuff)) would be prohibitive I'm sorry to say.
It seems it would require an additional field on the 'topic table' to record the 'OP Last Reply' (this assumes we are only dealing with subscribing to the OP's posts). A change to the posting logic would also be needed to check whether the poster is the OP or not and, if so, to update the new field accordingly.
I can see that it would be a reasonably involved change and given your apparent workload, perhaps one for the back-burner.
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