Users have requested a unified list combining tracked and watched topics to help heavy users manage participation across topics without new posts. rahim123 notes that while sidebar links to /latest?state=watching and /latest?state=tracking improve accessibility, a single combined list would be more intuitive. ClawdiaWolf points out that the built-in /unseen filter already shows unread topics (excluding muted or fully read ones), though it includes non-tracked/watched topics with unread posts. rahim123 later confirms that /filter?q=in:watching,tracking now works well for this purpose, though it remains obscure and hard to discover, as noted in this related topic. The discussion reflects ongoing efforts to improve topic visibility for active users.
Hi there, I’m getting requests from quite a few users for a list of all Tracked or Watched topics together. Since they are heavy users they have lots of Tracked topics and some Watched topics too, and they’re having a hard time keeping track of the topics they were participating in if those topics don’t have new posts in the Unread list.
I have added sidebar links to /latest?state=watching and /latest?state=tracking because the links to those filters in the user preferences are extremely obscure and hard to find. But it would make more sense to have them all together in a single list.
There is a builtin function that does this, but with the catch that if a topic has posts the user hasn’t read even when not tracking/watching it will also show those.
The URL is /unseen and basically is just a filtered version of Latest that doesn’t show topics that are muted or that the user has read all of the posts in it.