Re-reading this, I’d like to look at the sub-category question I mentioned earlier. @mattdm, are you thinking of enabling this for Fedora Discussion? I’d think that it could be a bad user experience to have to follow each of the sub-categories on Fedora Discussion separately?
For my site, I have 8 top-level categories to federate, with an additional 21 public subcategories.
I’d like people to be able to subscribe to the top-level categories and get the public subcategory content, but not federate the view-limited subcategories (e.g. the Staff category is a private subcategory of a public parent category on my site).
I can see two ways about this:
- A configuration that says “also federate subcategories” (applying visibility restrictions)
- The ability to re-use Actors in category configuration, so that I can just apply the same Actor to the parent category and the public sub-categories
The second looks like a better choice; more flexible, more explicit, and if I understand right probably a better match with the data model.
I guess an alternative would be to build a bot (or bots) to automatically boost all posts by sets of Actors on my Discourse. That would let me also implement an @all@... as well.
