"I read it" button alongside "I like it" button?

[adopilot (Admir Hodzic)]

we can either:

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[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

When we do some kind of announcement on our forum and we want to make sure that all team members read it, we can either:

There is now a discourse-policy plugin that we use for this purpose internally, when there is a “must have acknowledged official SOC2 security policy” topic posted.

[quimgil]

I can see some value in adding publicity visible read state on private messages, especially when groups are involved. That is where experimentation should start.

Indeed.

I’m not a heavy user of multiple chat applications, but I like how Riot.im shows the little avatars of users in the last comment they read. This gives every member of a room a good idea of who has read what, without requiring anyone to do anything other than reading.

This is an overkill for an entire Discourse forum, but for the use case of groups (and especially those providing support / relying on quick coordinated actions) it would be a very nice touch. But yeah, not trivial to implement, I guess.

(The “Seen by anmol” tooltip appears when you place the mouse pointer on top of an avatar.)

[jesus2099]

@codinghorror

It’s like you work for the company but you don’t approve of the things the company is doing? Why would you work there, again?

To pay the bills.
You’re lucky happy few if you never had to be in that position.