(How) Can I configure Discourse to act more like an old skool forum?
What I want to achieve:
Every time I visit the forum I get to see all posts (in new and existing topics) that are posted since my last visit and all older posts that I have not (marked) read yet (and no others)
I can read the subset of posts I’m interested in
Via a click/tap on a button I can mark all remaining posts as read
I see “unread” next to latest and new, whenever I return to the forum and there are new posts in threads I’ve posted in.
I use the iOS app, too, and you can get alerts when there are new posts, if you really want them. That seems to be all there is to the app, because otherwise, it’s just a web view.
Seems like I have adjusted to the Discourse way of working…
There’s one thing I don’t understand though: on both this MPU and the Automators forum I can switch to a “New” view/tab, where I can dismiss all new posts at once, while on the Drafts forum I can’t. The number of new posts is listed in the “Latest” view/tab, but I have to read them all individually to get the count down to zero.
As far as I can see I have the same settings on all three forums.
I don’t know why that one is acting differently. The New page doesn’t seem to be working on my end either. But I’m not an admin on that one so I can’t say if it’s a technical problem with the setup or a problematic plugin.