Apr 5, 2022 5:41 pm
@FlyingSucculent
I think @bowlofspinach raises a good point about this feature being pushed and pushed until it gets through. Although I'm not sure that the consensus was ever against it - but I do think some important principles were established during the previous discussions that should apply to any solution.
* The solution shouldn't allow people to hide community posts.
* The solution shouldn't hide game forums (although we might re-organise them or de-emphasise them).
Organizing your front page is one thing but if you're in a game, you should get post updates for it through the means that you use.
I really don't want to add much UI for this. It should be simple. This is why I hate the idea of user-definable folders.
I liked Chal's(?) idea of adding a follow/unfollow toggle to the game's page. That would be a nice and simple UI.
This would mean:
* You'd follow your games by default but could unfollow them.
* You could follow public games.
* We'd add public followed games to latest posts, your games, and the games forum.
* We wouldn't filter out unfollowed games that you are still a member of.
* We'd separate followed and unfollowed games in the game lists (your games and game forums).
I know this doesn't work for every use case, but I think it's an iterative step in the right direction.
I think @bowlofspinach raises a good point about this feature being pushed and pushed until it gets through. Although I'm not sure that the consensus was ever against it - but I do think some important principles were established during the previous discussions that should apply to any solution.
* The solution shouldn't allow people to hide community posts.
bowlofspinach says:
It was a stated design goal for GP from Keleth to lead people to the public threads to strengthen the community. I get why its appealing to just shut all of that off and only look at your games and I'm sure plenty of people would like that. But it goes directly against the goal of the sitebowlofspinach says:
But making games entirely invisible there, hiding them on your latest post feeds and just shielding yourself from any way to see the activity in them will definitely lead to games dying. At least some people will mute a game on accident and never notice until it's stalled.Organizing your front page is one thing but if you're in a game, you should get post updates for it through the means that you use.
I really don't want to add much UI for this. It should be simple. This is why I hate the idea of user-definable folders.
I liked Chal's(?) idea of adding a follow/unfollow toggle to the game's page. That would be a nice and simple UI.
This would mean:
* You'd follow your games by default but could unfollow them.
* You could follow public games.
* We'd add public followed games to latest posts, your games, and the games forum.
* We wouldn't filter out unfollowed games that you are still a member of.
* We'd separate followed and unfollowed games in the game lists (your games and game forums).
I know this doesn't work for every use case, but I think it's an iterative step in the right direction.