The "My Pin" Idea

[Brandon C]

Originally found here by Fast Lane:

What about an "I am not interested" feature that hides topics that you are not interested in. You click a button next to the topic and "poof" it is hidden from view unless you add it back . Just a thought. You could then have a "view all tab" to show everything. Also a thought... You could have a "my pinned" feature where you can actually Pin any Topic you want! This means that in addition to the ones that the board mods have pinned each member could then add additional pinned threads of their own. This would be Ultra Cool and I think very useful in personalizing the experience. That is just my two cents on two possible cool features!

I think that both of these features have been the two best feature suggestions I have seen in a while, and I'd really love to see this implemented into IPB. As you can see, the replies after him in that topic I linked to you above, everyone is loving it as well, and I can see why! :D

[Rοb]

I agree Brandon, top idea!

[Millar]

Wow, that is a really great idea. It's just like ignore for members but for topics. It would be so cool, especially with a nice bit of ajax to hide it instantly.

+ 1.

[Petrescu]

Great idea, and hope it's coming in 2.2. But I'll be very dissapointed if it's one of the big new features.

[• Jay •]

I think it would be nice to be able to do this with forums as well. For example, customers here who have purchased IPB but not Gallery, Nexus, Dynamic, etc... may want to "hide" those forums from their view of the forum index to keep the unnecessary clutter down.

[Millar]

[• Jay •]

Provided the catergories are organized well enough, being able to hide a catergory should be sufficient, I wouldn't see much point in a per forum feature.

Not really... take my earlier example. You'd still want to see the IPB forum, but no interest in the other forums in that category.

[Novawave]

I've seen the my pin feature as a mod on a vBulletin forum before. Trying to remember which one...

[Brandon C]

I think it'd be awesome to see it on both a per-forum, a per-topic, and a per-user (with an adjustment to the ignore system, of course) feature of this idea. :D

[UBERHOST.NET]

+1 - I like!!

[Brandon C]

Come on you guys -- Anyone else have any opinions on this feature and would like to see it in IPB?

[ZainZ]

This is the best suggestion i've seen so far ! IPS should definitely consider this :)

[lupin84]

I quite like this idea. :thumbsup:

[TestingSomething]

I still say do it similar to what I said (based on his same post, but another part of it) and have it where there are tabs for all posts and favorites. So you click the favorites tab to view your favorites, not have them pinned. Otherwise, it will make less sense for admins to pin.