Apply "mailing list mode" per category

[tobiaseigen]

I think the best solution to this is a combination of a better Watch workflow, and the addition of email tracking so that a post opened by email = a read post.

I this idea in a big way. One of our biggest challenges is empowering people in the community to know when other people have read their post. They also get massively overwhelmed arriving in the forum after a few month or years of mailing list mode to discover hundreds of notifications and don’t know where to start reading.

Strictly hypothetically speaking, maybe we’d be better off doing away with “mailing list mode” as this special different-from-the-rest mode and replacing it with an easy way to “Watch all categories”, which can be granularly changed from there.

I this idea too. It would work well in my community, methinks. People who like email can turn it on via their preferences, and then over time whittle it down by unsubscribing to topics and categories. As they move along, they’d then be able to tune it further via their preferences.

Taken together, these two ideas could go a long way to solving this problem.