Badge on categories

[gilles]

It’s just a question

Why don’t we display a badge on categories to indicate that there are new messages or replies?

There must be a technical reason, perhaps

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Where specifically? we do in some places, like the sidebar

but don’t in other places like some /categories page layouts or the topic list dropdown

[gilles]

I was thinking about the main page, like in the example, but we can’t see it.

My homepage leads to the categories. I know we can use filters like “recent,” etc., but I’m still trying to improve accessibility for users of all levels. Maybe I’m just trying to reinvent the wheel

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Oh yes, this is something we should consider… some /categories page layout options are more dynamic than others. The boxes with subcategories style you’re showing here doesn’t have anything to indicate activity. The other options for Desktop category page style show recent topics or at least the number of topics posted.

[gilles]

I use the category + boxes plugin for myself, which I modified to display new messages in categories with a badge showing the number of unread topics. I’m also thinking of adding a second badge with a different color (orange, for example) to indicate the number of unread replies. We’ll see, but I still have some work to do