I really think adding it to the homenode makes the feature more explorable and acceptable.

But it's your decision!

If you ever change your mind I'll be happy to provide the patch.

One other suggestion: adding the node's author² to the watchlist might help too.¹

And - as a meditation - are you considering also to add a "follow Monk" feature, once this proved to work?

Updates

¹) that's actually easily done with just the node's id using the templates we were discussing recently -> Docs for enhanced linking style with '<' for '|' ?

²) and maybe timestamp ? 🤔

adding the node's author ... and maybe timestamp

Great idea! Done!

This doesn't seem to be currently working. For me it shows:

[X]any Descendants of: New Feature: Thread Watcher , posted by on
[download]

add a "follow Monk" feature

Another great idea! Done!

When you're viewing a monk's homenode, you should see a Watch for posts by this user link.

Meditation again

we might come to a point where we need a feature to consolidate multiple messages for the same node into a single one.

For instance consider

• I'm following you
• watching a thread
• you're answering to one of my posts there

This will generate 3 messages in the CB.

I already had this effect in the past when I considered a personal node for deletion...

Edit

Probably it's possible on the message box level to see if there is already a message for the same node.

This is certainly not a high priority problem, but probably discussing it might lead to an elegant solution.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

> should see a Watch for posts by this user link.

I just realized that AnoMonk can see and click this feature too, when visiting a homenode

Does this make any sense?

edit

That's also the case for Watch for: Direct replies / Any replies when being locked out.

You might need to purge the database now from my experiments...

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}