Feature update: Following and participating by email
We’ve just launched a new system called following that makes it easier to keep up to date with the content you care about. When there are new comments in threads your are following, you'll receive them immediately by email, and you can reply to them by email too.
There are two new filter buttons on the dashboard, unread and following.
Unread shows you all the content you haven’t yet read (i.e. the same content that you used to go to your Inbox to see.)
Whenever you participate in a thread or someone mentions you, you will be following it, and new activity from then on will show up under your following filter in the app.
You can also manually opt in and out of following individual threads:
When you go to your dashboard, you’ll see all the most recent activity as usual. Click the new following button to will filter out everything apart from the content you are following:
If you really want to stay up to date with everything in a group, you can opt to follow everything in it:
By default, you’ll also be emailed immediately with any new content, and you can reply directly to the emails and they will show up in the app. If you don’t want to receive these emails, you can configuring the new email preferences here:
We're really excited about this feature - let us know in the comments if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks so much for your contributions so far that have refined the design to the point it is now ❤
Robert Beck
Mon 18 Aug 2014 3:13PM
Give it a try.
vivien maidaborn
Tue 19 Aug 2014 2:23AM
feels intuitive and useful
Jordi Faxedas
Tue 19 Aug 2014 1:48PM
Sounds great!
Deleted account
Wed 20 Aug 2014 11:58PM
helpful as the number of groups you belong to grow and the number of discussions in each group
Deleted account
Thu 21 Aug 2014 8:01PM
Indeed! It does make sense as seen in other platforms like Quora.
Benjamin Knight
Thu 21 Aug 2014 9:08PM
I like this very much :)
Joop Kiefte (LaPingvino)
Sat 23 Aug 2014 3:57PM
Seems really logical.
Poll Created Mon 18 Aug 2014 3:32AM
The new "Following" feature makes sense to me Closed Sun 24 Aug 2014 3:08PM
Thanks for all the feedback! The feature has been released.
Please check the updated info in the discussion context and let us know if there’s anything confusing about the new Following feature, and any feedback you have.
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 100.0% | 26 | |
Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Undecided | 0% | 877 |
26 of 903 people have participated (2%)
Phill Coxon
Mon 18 Aug 2014 4:01AM
Awesome - so need this. Great work!