Ok everyone, after discussion with @Megumin I think we’ll move away from using ‘votes’ and just switch to ‘likes’. Is that ok?
@Naphthalene I agree that the voting system would work, but @seanblue & @onigiristudies are right that the backlog will become a bit overwhelming and we’re trying to use the category to showcase popularity… which I think tactical voting doesn’t really showcase.
If we were going to be implementing them all very quickly and keeping a small backlog, I think voting would be the way to go.
Ok?
Edit: We cannot use likes apparently as you can only sort by total likes in a thread, not votes. Accordingly i’ve upped the vote count.
Even if you move to unlimited voting, I’d still retain the voting system over the likes, as it allows you to sort by votes in the forum subcategory, and also allows you to keep track in another place of what you have voted.
I don’t suppose it would be possible to create an entirely separate sub-forum for the product requests, would it? We probably already have as many as regular threads now, and it feels like the main forum’s getting clogged up with them. :X
How do you normally find it? Just by clicking on the Product Request category on a thread?
I don’t necessarily want to mute them in the long run is the thing, though. I’d still like to be aware of natively update requests, I just don’t want to see 2/3rds of the main page be devoted to these. I could always visit the Trello, of course, but I couldn’t add to the discussion there.
See, that part I’m not so sure about. See all the replies to Brandon where talking about one feature request reminds two users of three other things they want. And if we create a thread for each one… Improvements and change is a never-ending track.
After muting it will get split, and you will only see messages in that muted category where you have some interaction or have manually selected for tracking.
Wait, wait. I didn’t realize you could switch to that view. Wanikani defaults to that view and Natively doesn’t, so I didn’t realize you could actively switch to it. For those in the same boat as me, for me Natively defaults to showing latest posts, but if you click the Categories button at the top:
You get what Megumin is seeing, which is far better imo. Everything’s nice and separated now, even without having to mute anything. Is this a setting I need to change in my profile settings? Okay, this has solved my issue; thank you @Megumin!
There is! If you go to that user’s page (for instance by clicking on their icon to get a pop-up, then clicking on their name or icon again), you will see your status for them (“normal” by default). That’s a drop down menu that allows to mute them (you don’t get notifications from their activities but can still see their posts) or ignore them (so you won’t get notifications nor see their posts).
I know that that’s there; that’s why I specifically asked Brandon and specified both things that I’m looking for. I don’t just won’t to see their posts:
I want to know if there is an option to not allow a user to see my stuff as well. I want absolutely no interaction whatsoever.
because, as of rn, I’m assuming that anything I post can still be seen by the other person and that’s not the same as blocking. Instead, that’s just letting yourself get bullied without being able to see it because all of their stuff is hidden for you and not viceversa.
I see what you mean.
I was just checking the forum of the team that develops Discourse (the software of this forum) and they are having a heated discussion about that very feature (whether it’s necessary to implement or not), not unlike some recent exchanges about features on our own forum, haha
Sadly, the conclusion from the team seems to be that they won’t implement it.
For those in the same boat as me, for me Natively defaults to showing latest posts, but if you click the Categories button at the top:
