I am an admin for a discourse forum: https://forum.image.sc/ and we are having issues with implementing a feature to add a quick filter for unanswered posts. I followed the solution provided here by @tshenry:
However, we noticed that the Unanswered button does not appear when accessing the top-level https://forum.image.sc URL. But when navigating to any other page, e.g. https://forum.image.sc/latest , then it appears again. We aren’t sure what might be wrong here… as we followed the installation instructions.
Just a heads up - we’ve been looking at improving this component. There is some unexpected behavior in certain scenarios as it stands that will require a change in core before we can update the component. In addition to fixing some buggy behavior, the plan is to move it to a drop down toggle that’s similar to the category/tag drop you would find on topic lists.
If you still want to use it right away, I would check your the theme settings for the component. If there is a / listed in the exclusions list, try removing it.
I tried what you suggested with removing the / listed in exclusions list… it still resulted in similar erratic behavior. ?? And then we also lost the ‘Unread’ filter - which also seems to disappear/reappear ‘randomly’ when clicking different filters…
I suppose waiting for the updates is best at this point?
The core change is in place and I have the dropdown version of the component almost working perfectly, but there are a few routing edge cases that I’d like to try to iron out. I’ll be sure to post an update on this topic as soon as it’s ready.
