I searched but couldn’t find an answer to this specifically… Is there a way to get a notification (email, desktop) for a specific user? I know you can suppress specific users…

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean? You want a notification every time a particular user posts? You’ll need to subscribe to the RSS feed on that user’s profile page then. To subscribe to a user’s RSS feed, you will need a RSS reader .

Discourse isn’t a social media engine, but a discussion tool, so the “follow a person” feature never really made sense to us.

And I agree with this perspective entirely… but there is a use-case, I believe, where there’s someone specific or a leader / moderator that you realize you trust a lot and you don’t want to miss anything they have to offer. I see this behavior in my own new forum where folks really want to follow a …

Then visit that person’s profile page.. which contains all their posts.

That’s what I’m recommending to the users who have asked! Perfecto.

How feasible would it be to “bookmark a user”? Basically a way to keep a list of the people I want to keep track of.

Revisiting this old issue… I think this feature would make sense as an administrative tool, not as a site-wide feature. Some possible (non-social) use cases All of these are based on actual experiences I had. The unconfirmed spammer: [image] So I’ve seen this kind of spammer before, they do this…

What about the Discourse Follow ? Looks like there are plans for a “stealth mode” that would solve the administrative need.

Definitely looks interesting, thanks. The yet-to-be-implemented Stealth mode would be a must, I won’t have much use for the plugin without it. I guess I would really prefer a way to have this exclusively for admins, to keep turning my site into this “social” style like @codinghorror mentioned above…

Is there a way for users to discover the RSS feeds? Even just an auto-discovery link would be enough for people to find it with simple instructions: “go to a user profile page (any section) and paste the URL into your RSS reader”, maybe something like this: <link rel="alternate" type="appli…

How to follow a user and get notifications for this specific user?

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Mittineague (Mittineague) September 13, 2017, 7:51pm 9

The easiest way I can think of is to create a message to yourself with posts containing links to their Profiles.

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