Favorites

Toby

Regarding bookmarks/favourites:

It's worth looking at how Discourse have implemented this. See this blog post ("Combining Stars and Bookmarks"). Basically, you can bookmark any post, and if a discussion contains any bookmarked posts it will gain a bookmark icon. Gmail have a similar implementation for starred emails.

I think there's definitely a place for a Bookmarks extension like this in Flarum. Probably not a priority for the core team though.

Franz

Toby Well, we alreaady have the "following" feature, so these two could be combined. In fact, I always kind of thought that's how it should be done...

Toby

Franz But they're two fundamentally different things, are they not?

Following a discussion = I want to be notified when there are new posts in this discussion.
Bookmarking a post = I want to save this post for future reference.

How do you envision we would combine them?

Franz

Toby It would look like this:

Bookmarking is the only thing you do.
If you're that kind of person, you can also choose to be notified (via internal system and/or email) about new posts in discussions you have bookmarked.

I'd say there's no need for these to be separate concepts, but I can see how people might think otherwise.

ron_jeremy

Toby Following a discussion = I want to be notified when there are new posts in this discussion.
Bookmarking a post = I want to save this post for future reference.

+1 I would imagine this is exactly how most people would interpret 'following' vs 'bookmarking'.

Sapioit I do not see following and bookmarking as compatible, to be merged.

Toby

Franz I'm not convinced. I imagine it would be quite common to want to bookmark a post for future reference (e.g. archiving a useful resource), but not be notified about updates to it... While still receiving notifications for some other topics that you're currently interested in.

Again, bookmarking and following are actions which have two completely different intentions behind them. Even when you just look at the entity you are acting on – you are bookmarking a post, and following a discussion. They're not compatible, and we shouldn't try and force them into one.

That said, bookmarking is not a priority for a first-party extension as it kind of replicates functionality already built into your browser. If you want to save a useful resource for future reference, you can simply bookmark the page/post on your browser. I'm just saying, I think there's definitely room for an extension to be built by someone though.

Kulga Not sure if being able to follow a post would be very useful functionality in real life?

Kulga

Potentially, I could see it as "Following a post"

Following a discussion would notify you if someone posted in that discussion
Following a post would notify you if someone replied to that post.

Make the following a post a different icon and I think you have a pretty good combo of OP's favorite a post request and bringing it into Subscriptions extension.. Probably would want to make sure to avoid duplicate notifications for following a replied to post in a followed discussion ?

Dominion

Toby Not sure if being able to follow a post would be very useful functionality in real life?

It would be nice to be alerted on replies to a specific post without following the thread as a whole, but it isn't something that you could count on. There's always the possibility that someone will reply to that post without bothering to quote or mention it. Following the discussion is the only way to be sure you'd notice everything.

I also agree that bookmarking and following are different things, for the reasons given by Toby. I also don't see this as having very high priority, but that's probably because I don't have a mobile device and like to keep it all my bookmarks in my favorite browser. If I used more than one computer, it would be more interesting.

jordanjay29

Toby vBulletin and IPB have basically combined them into following. Except you can adjust how often you get notified, including None. Then there's list of followed topics accessible via the profile, which basically acts as bookmarks.

I think it'd be fine to make them either combined or separate, it can be done either way.

Dominion

jordanjay29 Except you can adjust how often you get notified, including None.

Is that done on a per-topic basis? (I can't imagine it would be, but thought I'd better ask, just in case ...)

jordanjay29

Dominion I think you can set a default and adjust per topic, yes.

Sapioit

I do not see following and bookmarking as compatible, to be merged. And I also think that bookmarking should be a first-party feature... sometime in the future.

Why? Because I may want to save a post for future refference, not wanting any update about it (like who replied to it, or anything), but just being able to have it at-hand whenever I'm on the forum. As someone who uses more than one device (usually laptop and smartphone), and doesen't want to waste time with a tirth-party website for saving bookmarks, I find this feature a must-have (in the relatively near future), mostly so since Discourse, a direct alternative to Flarum, is supporting it by default. I'm not saying everything Discourse or other such platforms should be copied by Flarum, but if a feature is found useful, and has proven useful by the other platform supporting it, why not give it a go?

bavard

Hi, I'm interested in a bookmark/favorite feature to save interesting discussions (which are often difficult to find back with vague memory of keywords).
What's the progress of this ? any extension ?

clarkwinkelmann

It's functionally the same thing as the Subscriptions extensions that Flarum maintains, minus the notification stuff. With some copy-pasting, it would be a very easy extension to develop.

I could use this as an idea for another extension tutorial.

Sapioit

clarkwinkelmann It's functionally the same thing as the Subscriptions extensions that Flarum maintains, minus the notification stuff. With some copy-pasting, it would be a very easy extension to develop.

I could use this as an idea for another extension tutorial.

Please do!

debynory

It would be really useful. It's like on the Amazon lists, more or less, instead of the products here there are the posts, or like on Youtube, where you can save a video and then see it more calmly at a later time.
I think the bookmark and favorite function would really make the forum complete.
Deb

Juba007

Sapioit He already did.

https://extiverse.com/extension/clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-post-bookmarks

https://extiverse.com/extension/clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-bookmarks

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