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[Request] An option to be notified of responses to all comments under a a specific one (piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by notabot@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Sometimes I'll make or read a comment and want to stay abreast of all the conversation beneath it, including replies to replies and so on. I can obviously manually switch on notifications for each reply as they come in, but an option to do that automatically would be great.

Originally I was going to suggest it just for comments the user posts, but actually being able to switch it on for any comment, in the same way we can for single level notifications now, would make tracking some discussions a lot easier.

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[–] ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

I independently thought of the same idea. While I'm daydreaming, I had some extra features that would be useful to me in a dream world:

It would be good to be able to apply this to posts (that are not mine) as well, or even to a link (i.e. all comments that would show up under the crosspost aggregation feature)
One problem I have with GitHub is that the subscription list perpetually grows and is never pruned.
- It would be nice if I could make such subscriptions, for instance, automatically expire n days after the last interaction
- Or, if there is a list of subscriptions somewhere, if I could manually "prune all whose last interaction is more than n days"
I'm not sure what the best UI would be, whether everything should go in notifications, or whether there should be a dedicated view for these subscriptions
- And, should that view show the whole thread underneath the top-level post you subscribed to?
- Or just the "new" comments?
- My feeling is the former, but not sure.