I am working on a mod for Vanilla that will keep posts in selected categories from appearing in the discussions list. A useful application would be to keep posts in a category called 'Testing' or 'Recycle Bin' from appearing in recent discussions and cluttering the discusssions list.
I am wondering what people think about expanding this feature to allow users to decide which categories they don't want posts to be included from in their discussions list. Another question I have is wether or not such a mod would be likely to have broad enough appeal to make expanding it worthwhile.
@dinobuff, that was what I am creating. The only real application would be for those viewing the discussion list who are not signed in. Which might be useful I suppose. It would at least keep all the garbage from being listed for public perusal by non-members.
By the way, how did you happen to reply so quickly. Were you just passing by or is there some way to 'watch a discussion' that alerts you when certain discussions have been updated?
(Or is that presumably the intention of the 'bookmark' option?)
Hmm, maybe I should read some documentation!
*Edit*: I can't find documentation for this (bookmark or block category option). Is there any?
Quickly? That was a 13 minute response time! I'm slacking here!
There are notification extensions but mark doesnt run one and I wouldnt use it for a thread like this anyway. It's not bookmarked either. I just sit on this forum my entire life reading all the threads and help out wherever i can [be bothered at the time].
I doubt there's any documentation about it cause (no offence) it's *reasonably* self explanatory. You could always add some though :)
:-) I remember the day when... used to do lots of chatroom support. Spent a lot of life doing that.
Anyhow.. I don't think 'the result of clicking' bookmark or block category is self explanatory. Not to a new user like myself.
Obviously bookmarking a discussion sticks a [bookmark] next to it, but does it do anything other than that? (I notice that Mark has a 'discussions filter' thing here which I don't have on my Vanilla installation, so that doesn't look like it is a core feature of bookmarking.)
As for block category. From this discussion I figure it is a way of hiding all discussions within a category from appearing on the discussions page, but this is user selectable, not an admin feature. But I doubt if I'd have realised that, or even found it, except by chance. To me, I would have thought the opposite was more useful...to not show any items on the discussion page except for those categories I have chosen as being interested in (kinda like having all discussions blocked by default).
Mini... I actually would be up for writing some documentation, except I have a tight deadline right now (1 week) for integrating Vanilla into TextPattern. Yikes, better get back to it!
Just to say I'm getting along fairly well with integrating Vanilla into TextPattern. My 1 week deadline is not up yet! Have to add the self-registration feature next.