Subscribe only to post resolution

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The discussion on the Meta Discourse forum revolves around a feature request to allow users to subscribe only to post resolutions in the context of the Solved plugin. rokejulianlockhart proposes adding a ‘status’ notification option, similar to GitHub issues, so users are notified only when a response is marked as an answer. This would be particularly useful for forums using Discourse as both a forum and an issue tracker, such as the Fairphone community. rokejulianlockhart provides examples from YouTube and Google’s issue tracker to illustrate superior implementations. Falco questions why the topic is tagged as ‘solved,’ and rokejulianlockhart suggests renaming the tag to ‘solved-plugin’ for clarity. JammyDodger notes that the current tagging system is consistent with other plugin tags and is unlikely to change soon, while kuaza supports the idea of improving the tag system in the future.

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I’d like to suggest that the extension add a new type to the notification options on a post where the Solved extension applies - status. Like what’s available for GitHub issues, I’d like to be able to subscribe to an issue in the sense that I’m only notified when a response is marked as an answer.

This is useful for forums like Random Screen dimming (while brightness slider stays at 100%) after A12 update - Fairphone 4 - Fairphone Community Forum, because they use Discourse (rightly or not) as an issue tracker as well as a forum. Specifically regarding the provided example URI, I don’t care about people responses; I just want to know when the issue that I reported has been remediated.

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Some superior implementations:

  1. https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/204228039

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  2. https://issuetracker.google.com/settings/notifications

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Why is Subscribe only to post resolution marked as Topics tagged solved?

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The tag means that this a Contribute > Feature request for the solved plugin.

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Might be a good idea to rename Topics tagged solved to https://meta.discourse.org/tag/solved-plugin.

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It’s currently pretty consistent with how we format all our other plugin tags, and has worked out pretty well for us so far, so I’m not sure we’ll make any changes in the immediate future. But thanks for the feedback. :slight_smile: :+1:

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It’s a good idea, I think it should stay in the corner, it would be great if it comes in the future.

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