Forum: Following tags / users?

[peteruithoven 4]

A forum specific question: Is there any way to follow (subscribe to) topics like Daid's Inside the Ultiamker3 series?

Forum software like Discourse for example allows tagging topics and users can subscribe to tags.

A way to follow certain users (the topics they start) would also be nice.

[SandervG 1,521]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your post.

Actually, that is a pretty good idea. Although I think in reality it will turn out that a lot of the posts are not relevant to read (when you decide to follow a user), and it will soon become spam-ish or annoying. But regardless, a good idea!

You can follow and bookmark topics, and also follow categories so when there is a new topic created you get a notification.

Is that something that helps you for now?

[peteruithoven 4]

Yeah I'm already following Software and Firmware > General category, but that also means a lot of posts that are irrelevant, that's why I really like Discource's tags idea.

Another related issue is that it only reports: "Forum Cura and Marlin has a new topic (...)" and it doesn't link to the actual new topic. Probably because it doesn't add a notification per new topic. And then I'm always unsure about whether the topics on top are the latest topics or just the topics that had recent replies.