Return of the sidebar?

[Captain Jordan]

I have a suggestion to bring back the sidebar. I think it would be the ideal way to keep track of subscribed topics simultaneously with the latest posts on the normal boards. Honestly, my method is usually to sit on my subscription page and refresh to see which topics have new replies. This means I'm rarely venturing out to see what new topics are out there, and I feel like I miss a lot. Having the sidebar keep track of new posts from my subscriptions might be a better usage for it than keeping track of all new posts as it was before.

[Mahz]

This is a good idea.

Ideally, the notification system would notify you without page reload in a useful way. Like "[New PM] <Username> responded to <Convo title>". And maybe they'd accumulate in a tray/sidebar that you can check while reading other things. But I wasn't sure what that would actually look like and that feels too far away to think about.

A persistent sidebar is a good middle ground since the system is so non-realtime right now. Maybe it could show your latest 5 convos and 5 subscriptions in a small stack, and regular forum usage would do the work of "refreshing" the list as you go do other things.

[Captain Jordan]

I'm glad you approve.

[Assallya]

Alternatively, one could put their subscriptions into the sidebar. That way you could browse the rest of the site and immediately know when your subscriptions are updated. This could be quite preferable to simply stamping the F5 key to refresh.

[Captain Jordan]

Assallya said
Alternatively, one could put their subscriptions into the sidebar. That way you could browse the rest of the site and immediately know when your subscriptions are updated. This could be quite preferable to simply stamping the F5 key to refresh.

/head to desk

Yes, this is exactly what I suggested in the first post.

[Mahz]

Assallya said
Alternatively, one could put their subscriptions into the sidebar. That way you could browse the rest of the site and immediately know when your subscriptions are updated. This could be quite preferable to simply stamping the F5 key to refresh.

Yeah, exactly.

[Mahz]

Captain Jordan said
/head to deskYes, this is what I suggested in the first post.

[SilenceOnMars]

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