Show tags less frequently

Oshvam

I was wondering if there was a way to weight some of the tags in Flarum. When a forum is busy, there are tags that can be annoying for users.

The idea is to be able to give the user the choice to have certain threads associated with tags displayed less frequently.

luceos

Oshvam you can use fof follow tags to allow users to hide discussions from certain tags.

Oshvam

luceos Yes, I understand the point of hiding tags, and in fact that's what we use. But the idea is not to hide them completely, but to subtract visibility. That is, to give priority to other tags without hiding the previous ones. This would make a much more personalized timeline for the user, imagine the case:

A forum that talks about video games.
It has Off Topic.
Politics.
Leisure.

The user does not want to mute Politics, but he wants to see it less frequently, so he prioritizes Leisure, for example.

clarkwinkelmann

Oshvam where would the least prioritized discussions go though ? Flarum only has a linear discussion list sorted by a specific criteria. The way it works natively, either something is shown, or it isn't.

If you create a separate page that only shows n recent posts you could have some more logic but I'm not sure how the discussion list, which is essentially an index, could be automatically curated while still remaining usable to find any discussion.

You could have a variation of the tag mute feature where the forum admin selects a group of tags and the user can activate a "focus" or "distraction-free" mode that automatically hides all tags from that list, and restore them when the mode is disabled. But if it's so important, maybe just hiding the tags from the main list for everyone would be enough?

Oshvam

clarkwinkelmann I understand what you mean. Thanks for giving me some more information.

I think the ideal is to create a new system to sort the threads, applying weightings to the tags, so that the threads in the timeline are displayed giving priority to the weighting applied. For example, the Politics tag would have a weight of 1, video games a weight of 4, Leisure a weight of 3 and Off topic a weight of 2. So it will first show video game threads, then Leisure, Off Topic and finally Politics.

Another idea in my head is similar to how @MichaelBelgium Discussion Views extension solves it, which does something similar, applying a new order filter based on thread views to show "Most popular" and "Least popular", I could use the same idea as a base by saving the user's views to automatically calculate the weights based on what they visit the most.