Improvements to "Following"

[Princess Periwinkle 3,775]

Here's a feature I've been wishing was available for a while now, as well as another idea.

 

1. The ability to follow users in much the same way as you can follow forums. Simply get a notification whenever they start a thread. Because I like to stalk people.

 

2. I think that all users should automatically follow Canterlot Castle, to make sure they know when news is posted. (I had the problem of forgetting to check it until I followed it).

 

I'm afraid the answer will be "IP Board can't do it," but here's hoping. :3

[NavelColt 22,880]

Hmmm, I know the second option has to have been talked about somewhere before, whether it was members or just staff I don't recall. Both make sense to me, but yeah, I can't ever speak on behalf of IPFail's reliability on doing much of anything

[Jokuc 8,173]

Hmmm, I know the second option has to have been talked about somewhere before, whether it was members or just staff I don't recall. Both make sense to me, but yeah, I can't ever speak on behalf of IPFail's reliability on doing much of anything

 

Actually, both of these things had been discussed before. The suggestion about following users was brought up just a few days after we got the blog feature added to the site, actually. Now I have tried to search for the thread but I can not find it, however. Neither do I remember exactly what was said, but there might have been something about the IPS not supporting it. If that's the case, I find it weird since I honestly think there must be some way to do both of these things. I mean, both of them sounds like great suggestions. Especially the first thing about following users. There are a couple of people who I like to know whenever they post something since they are rarely on the forums and it's great to know at which times they are active. The suggestion about Canterlot update notifications does also sound very good, but personally I do not need it since I am on the forums pretty much all the time and I always check pretty much all sections all the time too.

 

Maybe there would be some way to do this with some sort of RSS feature?

[Zygen 6,066]

Hm... i'd be interested in stalking Following people. I suppose there are some people i might decide I really like to know everything they do.(Its like i don't already check enough notifications .)

 

As for the following canterlot castle, i agree, I think it should be auto followed, i mean as soon as i realized what it was and what following was i followed it, its all important news, so it may as well be sent to every member and notify them, everyone should get a chance to know something was announced that may be important to them.

 

I never checked it before following it anyways.

 

I know nothing about IP board, so idk though.

Edited July 24, 2013 by Zygen