After the quite poor reception of V5 in my community (many common actions have regressed and become more complicated), I hope it’s possible to start implementing the long-awaited core forum features.

We need a feature where users can choose which subforums—or even better, which specific topics—are included in their activity streams.

The idea is that when a user visits the homepage and clicks on "Unread Content," they only see their personally filtered content. It doesn’t actually matter whether the selection is inclusive (choosing what to include) or exclusive (ignoring unwanted content).

This is the number one most-requested feature in my community because, for example, users who follow F1, basketball and movies don’t want content from music, politics or whiskey forums.

Sorry to hear you feel thing are more complicated. It would be better to post about specific items though, rather than a generalised statement. After all "I dont like x" isnt a workable problem. "I feel x should work like y" is. :)

With the item in question, this is already a feature, and has been since the first implementation of streams. Click "My activity streams" and click create new stream. Set the filters up as you wish in here. If you want o only see certain forums, check the "topics" icon, then click the cog icon that appears to further filter down that list.

Now once you save your new stream, and select the "Options" menu, and you can set that as you default stream, which replaces the default "unread" link with whatever stream you have chosen

@Marc

Thank you very much for this. I suspected something like this must exist, but I did not manage to find it (as well as couple thousand other people who complained to me).

Most people were using the Ignore topics add-on.

In general, V5 is working more or less fine for my workflow, but I am mostly on desktop and do not post a lot in my community.

I think after 5.0.5, it will be even better. 😊

Almost all complaints from other members are already in the Feedback Forum or Bug Tracker.

Edited March 27Mar 27 by bags_ppp

Glad to hear this :) Of course we are also in very early versions of what is a very very big rewrite of large chucks of the platform. As such, it will evolve over time, as 4 did throughout its life. As mentioned though, if you do see areas you have ideas on improving, please do feel free to post them up as feedback. While we cant promise everything suggested would be included, we can guarentee we wont include or change anything we dont know about 😊

@Marc

This is workaround but it is offering very limited experience.

Currently if there are new forums they will be ignored in stream.

It would be much better if we can filter on topic level and OPT OUT for certain froums/topics but there is already feedback for this feature.

Yes, I have seen feedback for that :)

 

After the quite poor reception of V5 in my community (many common actions have regressed and become more complicated

I'd love to hear what your sticking points are so we can consider changes in future releases.

@Matt @Marc

Huge portion of issues are coming form missing Ipsfocus themes and ignore topics add-on so I will skip those and other already fixed in 5.0.4 and 5.0.5.

Please also consider that this community is mostly 40+ (with many 60+) people and they have average IT skills.

We use only Forums module.

1. Missing mark forum as read link (already in Feedback or V5 Bugs)

2. Adding new spoiler is hard even with workaround (already in Feedback or V5 Bugs)

3. Click on date in stream does not lead to last post (already in Feedback or V5 Bugs)

4. No reactions in my activity (already in Feedback or V5 Bugs)

5. For many users editor on mobile randomly does not load or is in infinite loop (without any pattern, different browsers, countries)

6. When you type in editor it moves upwards with every letter (different mobile browsers on both android and ios) and you can not scroll page

7. Smiley conversion does not work ( :) should be autoconverted to 😀)

8. Wrap in quote, Subcript, superscript and strikthrough not always visible

9. Missing "clear previous content" button

10. If mobile screen is on 120% or 140% it is impossible to use editor (see attachment)

11. Embedded videos are too large especially verticals from youtube or some with some twitter videos only upper half is visible

12. Unread content button after some time does not work on mobile (if you click on it, click actually goes to underlaying link)

13. Posting restrictions are removed without deprecation notice

14. Missing breadcumbs for navigation on bottom ( maybe this was part of ipsfocus theme)

15. In general mobile view is not condensed and a lot of white space (as I said this is coming even from older users)

16. Bug with clicking on next page in topic and staying on same with same content is still there (phantom pages)

Edited March 28Mar 28 by bags_ppp