I miss the top level “unread” count/link. I tend to have two modes of reading discourse sites:
- checking back in on threads I’ve tracked
- choosing new threads to track
Most of my time is spent paying closer attention to threads I’ve already decided I want to pay attention to — the unreads. Only on some visits do I have bandwidth to look for new things to pay attention to (the new). This change prioritizes the latter, which I spend less time doing… and I liked the clearer top-level separation of the two.
A few things feel more confusing to me than before: When I think “Replies” I think posts, but the count on the new page under “Replies” is the number of topics… and then each topic gets a badge with the number of posts. The /unread endpoint still exists and that’s where you land if you choose that to be your home page, but it’s subtly different from /new?subset=replies. I also think it’s confusing that “Replies” appears on the top of the table of topics twice, and I don’t really understand why “Replies” wouldn’t count as “Topics”:
