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What do y'all think of the idea of referring to this feature as following rather than watching? I think that would make more sense in the modern context.

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Re^2: New Feature: Thread Watcher - Should we call it 'follow' instead?
by hippo (Archbishop) on Apr 05, 2024 at 15:07 UTC

    Can't say I would be overly worked up over the naming of it. Following sounds more appropriate where the object is a user and watching moreso where the object is a (sub)thread, so either is fine for the general case.

    As a hippo I'm in favour of combining watching and following so that we end up with wallowing. That sounds ideal. :-D


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      OK. I have changed the verbiage on user homenodes only to 'Follow'/'Unfollow'. And I have moved that link to the 'For this user:' list of links. So you'll see it right after 'Search nodes'.

        Considering features prefer consistency, confusion reduction and short ways.

        The page to check is called My *Watched* Nodes so newbies need to associate "watch" with "follow".

        On another note:

        It's also confusing me that

        • watches list the actual node prior to context
        • reply notifications list context prior to actual node

        [ ] root says jdporter posted Re^3: New Feature: Thread Watcher - Shou +ld we call it 'follow' instead? > New Feature: Thread Watcher [ ] root says You've got a reply to Re: Why is Dumper returning "!!1" +for true file test? from XXX at Re^2: Why is Dumper returning "!!1" f +or true file test?

        Other features I'd like is an option to shorten the messages from redundancy

        That is applying a regex to shorten the context node

        [ ] root says You've got a reply to "Re: ..." from XXX at Re^2: Why is + Dumper returning "!!1" for true file test?

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