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Sapioit Wouldn't "favorites" be a kind of duplicate for "Likes"?
If we did implement it in the user profile, i would say just show a preview of the post, such as sticky discussions
For example:
Likes:
Favorites (Feedback > Features)
@Sapioit Hi!
I will cut the slack: favorite comments, which could be seen in the user's me...
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datitisev The likes are for when you like a post, not for when you want to remember that post, let's say, a year from now. I am active on a forum using discourse and actively have more than 20 "favorites" ("bookmarks") saved in the forum. The good part is that as long as the forum is up, I can access them. The bad part is that I cannot use them offline (say, to give the link to somebody, while I don't have internet access).
Edit: What if you like 20 different comments from the same discussion thread, because you like them or agree with them, but want to have the most important ones saved for later? Let's say you liked my suggestion and 200 others, With time, some of the features get implemented. Do you unlike them? What about the ones not implemented? Will you keep liking the ones you want or agree with? Or the ones planed to be developed? And what about the ones you don't like but are planed for the development? Are you gonna "like" them without liking them?
Or what about 15 bugs, all of which need to be fixed, but 3 of them are critical. Are you gonna only like the 3 most important... and after fixing them, unlike them and like the other critical bugs?
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Sapioit It would never be able for offline, unless Flarum uses WebCache or something (i forgot, messed with it a long time ago), and I don't think they will do that.
For the "favorites", you could follow a discussion, and remove notifications from such folowed notifications in your settings
Edit: Wow, this question is beyond my abilities to understand, sorry ? Hopefully a more advanced person in forums can answer your 2nd paragraph ?
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datitisev Who said anything about offline? The point is that as long as you have access to the forum, you can get to the said posts with relative ease.
datitisev you could follow a discussion, and remove notifications from such folowed notifications in your settings
I'd like to see you search through 200 comments of varying length which you liked in that discussion, for one single comment which you don't remember who it was posted by, you do not have it bookmarked in the browser you're currently using, you don't remember what exactly it said, even after you tried searching multiple times, but even if you bookmarked on your home computer, you want to know it.
Flarum also does not support Personal Messages (sadly), so there's no way to save them that way... so we're back to square one.
TL;DR: You're missing the bigger picture.
Sapioit Flarum also does not support Personal Messages (sadly), so there's no way to save them that way... so we're back to square one.
This is going to be implemented before stable release, but it will take a while.
About the other parts of your post, too overwhelming for me, sorry ?
You will have to wait for others with a better mind than mine to take so much in ?
About offline, you said this:
The good part is that as long as the forum is up, I can access them. The bad part is that I cannot use them offline (say, to give the link to somebody, while I don't have internet access).
? Sorry if I don't understand you. Please wait for others more advanced than me ?
datitisev I'm sorry if I seem angry, judging by my use of words, but I am calm and I tried to explain it the best I could, so I can avoid as many misunderstandings as I can.
And about the offline, my point was that they differ from the booksmarks from a browser or another app by the fact that they will remain in the forum for as long as the user can log into their forum account. It could be paired with traditional bookmarking, but when that one fails, this one can help. A lot. Mostly if the forum runing Flarum is used by people who need to be able to remember things from months ago.
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Sapioit So like, to cache the forum and the posts from the last time the user accessed online and be able to see them while offline?
That would probably be better in a native app, which might or might not come for all Flarum forums ?
Sapioit I'm sorry if I seem angry
Ah, sorry, my view was exactly that one. I didn't think you were trying to explain it better for understanding, sorry ?
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datitisev So like, to cache the forum and the posts from the last time the user accessed online and be able to see them while offline?
No, you will only see them while offline. But you will be able to see them whenever you can access your account. Like a built-in bookmarking system usable only for bookmarking comments from the forum itself. You may lose your laptop, you may be unable to start your PC, you may be viewing it from an antique phone, but if you can log into the forum, you can see the favorites/bookmarks.
? (I'm mostly chill, even if I sound as angry as a german swearing with russian accent, after drinking way too much.) ^^
I like the bookmarks idea as an extension.
Offline access, not so much. Forums are intended to be communities, not really repositories for offline access. There are much better techniques to save such documents and have access to them offline, I don't think Flarum needs to implement them. If someone wanted to build an extension, have at it, but I think it may take more work than is worth it for this feature.
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jordanjay29 Offline access, not so much.
It wasn't my idea...
jordanjay29 If someone wanted to build an extension, have at it, but I think it may take more work than is worth it for this feature.
You know what I would like to see, after Flarum gets out of beta (ASAP, prefferably)? Tutorials for making extensions, modifying Flarum files, and more stuff like that.
I like @Sapioit idea of favorites so you can go back and reference various posts. Anything I want offline is dumped into Evernote.
Sapioit More extension documentation is definitely in the works.
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jordanjay29 Hint: Without video tutorials, most is in vain. (A random tip, but which had to be said.)
Sapioit Video tutorials for coding is probably not something the Flarum team is planning on doing. Community members may pick up the initiative, however.
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jordanjay29 That's the best way to introduce the new users to developing plugins for a product... That's also why people make so many videos about how to make a plugin for Wordpress...
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.
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.