Using muting is really not intuitive for some use case:
- A lot of categories are available but only a are few relevant for most people. With new categories popping periodically.
- Wanting a new category to be created as muted for everyone but the few relevant users.
- Wanting to check the muted status for all categories available / all subcategories of that specific category on the same page I can read their description (on the category page).
The star makes everything clearer and more intuitive.
Actually, without having to implement new rules and logic for a ‘favorite’ status, if the star was just a toggle for the muted status of the category, it would be already very handy. Or on the same UX maybe have 3 settings: muted (BG-secondary color star), displayed/normal (primary color star), or favorite (smiling shiny rainbow star).
It would also be very nice if admins could chose if both 1) the stars would be displayed, and 2) the favorite status is possible :
- for all categories, through a global setting
- for that category on the category setting page
- for all subcategories on the parent category setting page
(Oh, and to continue the wishlist, if the star could be a parameter allowing to chose any FA icon instead, that would also be fun).