My friends group

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The discussion revolves around creating a “my friends” group in a user profile without following their content. patrickemin asks if it’s possible to mark users as friends without following them. ondrej clarifies if this refers to the follow plugin. patrickemin confirms the use of the plugin but wants a way to bookmark friends. HAWK questions the functionality, and patrickemin explains it would be a private bookmarking feature. Heliosurge suggests manually listing friends in the profile’s About section or using a private inbox with PMs. Lilly proposes using a private inbox list with custom sidebar links. patrickemin considers creating a group but notes the challenge of scalability. Heliosurge suggests a custom plugin could automate this, allowing users to create private, self-owned groups visible only to members, potentially enhancing fakebook-style themes. patrickemin appreciates the detailed suggestion.

1

Hi, is there a way to have a “my friends” group in my user profile? (not necessarily to follow them). Thank you.

2

You mean like a group or are you referring to the follow plugin?

3

I am using the Follow plug-in. But my ask was more to mark some users as my friends (my relations) without following their content.

4

What behaviour would that trigger?

5

None. Like you can have bookmarks, I would like to have bookmarked friends.

6

I can’t think of anything that would serve that purpose, no.

7

You could create a listing in About me in your profile.

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These lists would need to be made manually. For profile links copy the link address of the profile avatar.

https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej

There is I believe a link method that should more display the usercard. But cannot recall it off hand.

8

You can always just make a list in your inbox using a pm to yourself and link to it with a custom sidebar link. If you list them as @mentions, you can easily click on them for actions without actually notifying them, since it’s your inbox and you are the only recipient of the message. I have an inbox notebook organized and indexed into sections with my checklist of tasks, all kinds of notes, blog updates and links, etc. I use a private Discourse instance like a personal organizer tool that pretty much does everything. I don’t know what your use case is, whether you want a private list for yourself, or a public list a la facebook style.

9

Yes thanks. Actually I could create a group. This came to my mind as I think there is no simpler solution.

10

Groups can work for sure. Though could be messy if wanting all users to have their own friends/family groups.

11

Yes that’s the problem.

12

If you have an available budget consider Marketplace.

Someone might be able to create a plugin that will Automatically create a group using as a base

  • username-friends. Maybe once user reached TL3 & account x days old.
  • Making that user owner with setting “request to join” & leave freely.
  • Hide group from group page and add link to usercard and/or user profile.
  • Additional consideration if owner cannot change group visibility to have option to make group only show to members(private vs public viewable).

Such a plugin option would make it possible to closer simulate FB and would be a great addon for the Fakebook themes.

13

Yes, thank you for the detailed suggestion.