Auto Follow Discussion

huoxin

Auto Follow Discussion

A Flarum extension that builds on Flarum Subscriptions.

Minimal Maintenance Notice: This extension is now under minimal maintenance. The original flagship feature ("Automatically follow discussions I created") has been merged natively into the Flarum 2.0 core subscriptions extension. This extension now only provides the "Automatically follow discussions I read" feature (which I don't know what can it be used for).

维护通知： 本扩展现处于最低限度维护状态。其最初的核心功能（“自动关注我创建的主题”）已被合并进 Flarum 2.0 的 Subscriptions 扩展中。目前本扩展仅提供“自动关注我读过的主题”功能（我也不知道有什么用）。

Features

~~Allow users to automatically follow the discussions they created（允许用户自动关注他们创建的主题）~~ (Merged into Flarum 2.0 Core)
Allow users to automatically follow the discussions they read（允许用户自动关注他们读过的主题）

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Installation

Install with composer:

composer require huoxin/auto-follow-discussion:"*"

Updating

composer update huoxin/auto-follow-discussion:"*"
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

0.0.2

Add option to auto follow discussion after the user read (currently has a small issue that the follow status is not displayed until the page is refreshed) ctml

huoxin

ctml Hi, since the main feature of this extension (follow discussions created) is added to the core extension for flarum 2.x (flarum/framework4464), do you still want this extension to be port to 2.x?
For the feature you requested (follow discussions they read), do you still use it? If not, I might leave this extension for 1.x only
Look back at the feature to follow discussions the users read, it feels like they will be just following almost every discussion (on a small forum)

fabre4

huoxin Yes please! 🙂 I want it to my flarum v2.
Thank you!!

ClaudiusH

fabre4 Just to be clear: The core feature of automatically following discussions you created or replied to is already built into Flarum 2.x core. Are you asking to get "Follow any discussions you simply viewed" added to Flarum 2.0? Because I don't really see the use for that. Most of the times you would need to peek into a discussion to understand if it is relevant and follow worthy. And that viewing alone is not a strong enough signal for a "drive by follow" right away.

Tobi

ClaudiusH is there a way to turn it On automatically to all profiles?

ClaudiusH

Tobi Yes, by using FriendsOfFlarum Default User Preferences

huoxin

ClaudiusH I think the new FollowAfterCreate is not included, I dont remember adding it to this extension

ClaudiusH

huoxin True. Only the "Follow after reply" settings is available in the "Default User Preferences" extension

huoxin

1.0.0

Fix the issue where follow status is not displayed until the page is refreshed, now it will redraw UI automatically after discussion read state updates

Full Changelog: huoxin233/flarum-ext-auto-follow-discussion0.0.2 → 1.0.0

2.0.0

Migrate to Flarum 2.0
Remove redundant followAfterCreate logic

Full Changelog: huoxin233/flarum-ext-auto-follow-discussion1.0.0 → 2.0.0

huoxin

The current extension has been updated for Flarum 2.x, but will be under Minimal Maintenance as the main feature is merged into 2.x core extension, and I dont really see a proper use case for following all discussion being read.

Also if you are wondering how to set default value for FollowAfterCreate, a PR had been created in fof/default-user-preferences FriendsOfFlarum/default-user-preferences25 for managing the default value of FollowAfterCreate in 2.x but havent been merged yet