Easier access to bookmarks đź”–

We just made it a lot easier to access and find bookmarks on topics :confetti_ball:

We found people struggling to find which posts they had bookmarked on topics, to improve the situation we now link to all post bookmarks from the bottom topic action bookmark control.

If any post is bookmarked you will quickly be able to find it by scrolling to the end of the topic and clicking the control.

Happy bookmarking! :bookmark:

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This is great, thanks. I wonder whether there should be some visual indication that a post has been bookmarked (like there currently is when a whole topic has been).

It is there if any post is bookmarked you will see a bookmark icon in the header:

I do think we can do something fancy with the timeline as well for very long topics, but this is a bit of a stretch goal.

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Do you mean on the post or on the topic?

On posts, the bookmark icon is visible when it’s bookmarked, while it’s usually hidden behind .... Of course, that can be different on your forum, depending on how you configured the post menu. Since Change bookmark icon for non-bookmarked posts on mobile view, the icon no longer toggles just between gray and color, but between a gray outline and filled with color.

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I mean on the topic.

The bookmark icon at the bottom changes to blue when the topic has been bookmarked. When a post has been bookmarked (but the topic has not) there is no indication that anything is different until after you click the grey outline bookmark icon (when you see details of the bookmarked posts).

I’m aware of the bookmark icon at the top of the topic and within the relevant post. But on mobile there’s a big difference between being at the top and bottom of the topic.

It’s a great improvement as it is.

There is … it says Edit bookmark/s

Its a bit of an edge case there is no perfect answer of what to do here, I am on the fence

Not on mobile there’s not. I suppose I’m looking for some equivalent of the desktop “Edit bookmarks…” prompt but on mobile. I’m not sure that’s an edge case.

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Good point @chapoi given this should we revert back to filling it? otherwise mobile gets no hint.

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I was going to add that, against what I’ve been saying, the top-of-topic bookmark icon is obvious when you scroll down – then I noticed that it’s not working properly. Feel free to move to a new topic if this hasn’t been reported before.

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Thanks for considering this. Maybe there’s some middle ground, like a blue outline bookmark icon.

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