Ignore updates feature

[Arantor]

I am always sad that XF doesn't have a built in way for ignoring when a given board or topic has had updates - e.g. ignoring an entire board that is of no interest, or ignoring a specific topic you don't care to see keep coming back in the what's new page.

It's a shame in particular because while it's a bit clunky to use, SMF has both of these - you can ignore individual boards or even individual topics and I personally am quite thankful for both of these things.

 

[Cedric]

There is actually an add on available for that. Don’t know if it’s paid or free - need to check. But yes, it should come default. Are you speaking generally or also in case of the forum here? I can look for the add on and install it if needed.

 

[Arantor]

I'm speaking more generally, I really think XF should have this built-in at this point. I'm less bothered specifically here - there are other XF sites I am a member of where this is more pressing (but xf.com isn't going to install it)

 

[Cory]

I could see this being an interesting, useful feature. Say if there's a political forum and you care nothing about politics, you could simply block the forum so you don't have to view it or its contents. Or, if there's a specific topic on subject that grinds your gears and you want nothing to do with it, just simply block it. I don't think it's a 100% necessary feature to have for forum software, but a useful one for the most part.

 

[Arantor]

It's not even about being interesting, it's a feature other platforms have had since before XF's origination and now more than ever where people want to curate what's interesting to them, I can't see how it still hasn't made it in.

In my case, I use this on simplemachines.org to filter out all the dozens of non-English support boards, and some of the more noisier (and irrelevant) boards. I could see folks using it on sites to ignore the "forum games" type boards if they're not interested, just as an example I've certainly had over the years.

 

[Cory]

At the very least, according to Aero, there's an add-on for it. That's better than not having it available altogether. It could indeed be useful as a default feature, though.

 

[Heatman]

Personally for me, it doesn't matter if the add-on for it is paid, as long as it serves the need for having paid for it, I'm okay with paying the price for it. Although, some people wouldn't mind it at about how any topic gets pushed to their What's New.

 

[Reverie]

I haven't really seen it on a forum before, but that does seem like a good feature for those possibly more broader forums for sure! The example of political forum - I wouldn't want any notifications lol. I'm not sure if I would purchase this though as an owner, depends on the price. Wish it would just be embedded for those who do want it.

 

[Arantor]

What I find amusing is that SMF has had the ability to ignore boards for at least 15 years (2006's 1.1 definitely had it, I don't remember if 1.0 had it) and got the ability to ignore individual threads sometime in the mess of its 2.1 (2011->2022) dev journey, and yet it's not everywhere else in the forum world.