Forum feature requests and Ideas

[larvapuppy]

If I'm not mistaken on board pages, threads that are unread have the word "New" at the end of their title?
While on the homepage, boards that have newly posted topics since you last looked have an illuminated city (or star on the blue theme).

I use the regular theme, and I have to admit that I didn't notice there was a greyed out version of the city vs a colourful version on the homepage!    Thanks for letting me know, I'll make use of this from now on. 

[xixxii]

This one has been on and off the cards for a while simply because its not a feature that Iv been able to find a plugin for and its quite complex to custom make it ~ I'm still trying to figure out a fair solutions.
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I'm also kinda aware that a lot of people use the "Recent Posts" list a bit like a social media feed, but since it wasn't designed to be a feed like that, we don't really have the infrastructure to tailor it to peoples wishes the way a feed normally would be.

i do use the recent posts list as my main forum browsing tool! sort of like a social media feed, i suppose. i love to see what's new and on people's minds. i thought it might be relatively simple to mute threads, since muting categories takes threads the recent posts list, but i don't know anything at all about forum software or how it works

We don't actually have a block or mute system ~ we have an "Ignore private messages from this person" system (that's actually what the list is called in the code). Again its a case of ~ blocking is not a feature that seems to exist for this forum software, so we kinda have to invent it from scratch - I think this one would be a little easier to do though, since the code to add and remove people from your ignore list already exists and is working - we just need to tie that code into the post lists, to maybe hide or spoiler posts by ignored people?

interesting!! it seems like it works kind of partway, actually? an ignored user's posts are hidden in the "topic summary" portion of the "post reply" page, interestingly. (it collapses the post and just shows you the username and timestamp and "You are ignoring this user. Show me the post." with "show me the post" being clickable to reveal the post)
not sure what the deal is there but maybe helpful information anyway...?
at any rate, it's nothing super urgent or necessary. if it's difficult to do, then whatever ~ it seems like it'd be a chore to figure out and not especially fun or interesting once figured. plenty of other things to spend one's time on.