Hello, For the past few weeks I have been working on a plugin that defines new topic lists (there is going to be a new topic list for each user which is going to contain only user’s favorite categories). I am developing this new feature as a plugin and now I got to the part where I have to hook int…

Hi Bianca, sorry not much response on your issues atm, but could you elaborate on (4) please ? I’m currently working on the plugin api for the new select-box-kit and always interested to know what issues you had while using plugin api so I can avoid falling in the same traps.

[immagine] nbianca: Hooking into the navigation bar is a huge pain. Sorry, when I said navigation bar I should have been more clear. It is the category / tags dropdown and the nav pills used for filters. What I want to do is add more categories to the list and eventually more nav pills. The p…

OK that’s even more interesting, those dropdowns are not using the new select-box-kit YET, I don’t know about the design decisions leading to this (it’s also probably very old code), but let’s focus on present/future. Can I see your code somewhere? It might help me understand your needs more easily…

Take a look at the Hot Topics repo: https://github.com/danskdynamit/discourse-hot-topics If I understand what you’re asking correctly, this plugin does a lot of what you’re talking about. It creates a new topic list that you add to the navigation bar in your site settings. Check out the Meta topic…

[immagine] nbianca: have been working on a plugin that defines new topic lists (there is going to be a new topic list for each user which is going to contain only user’s favorite categories) Can you elaborate on the use case here? What is this for, what user need does it address? Can you prov…

If I understand correctly, this is something I always wanted to do. In all social networks people subscribe. Once subscribed, the person gets exactly what he wants to see. Very convenient. Follow the categories, tags - topics (next people). Example: Quora. A lot of people who want this implementat…

Is it not this? [immagine] Topic list tabs for user-customizeable saved filters Feature We’re sponsoring a developer to work on this as a plugin. Approach #2 seems like the way to go for an MVP. I’ll post a final spec below based on @mcwumbly and @LeoMcA ’s moc…

Building New Topic Lists

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mcwumbly (Dave McClure) 26 Ottobre 2017, 5:43am 8

Is it not this?

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