“Display new / update topic count in title” is not quite right. It’s actually
Display new / updated topic count in topic lists, and unseen reply count in topics
But that’s turning into a bit of an essay. I’m struggling to come up with a more concise version… Maybe
Display unread notification count in title
Display contextual counter in title
Also, which option would you like as the default? (Given that most people will never bother to change this).
The current default is fine. Opening fifty bazillion tabs isn’t a common use case.
Per:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dc703adad77caf63a5a93de55798d2c3590fd1fc
And
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/24ef4f7b2bbbe233999977615df85d43218080fa
We removed disable_jump_reply setting which was a fundamentally wrong and only partial broken solution to “allow me to jump to first unread in a topic”.
We added default_title_count_mode which allows admins to choose the default behavior for the count in the title (either contextual or notification count).
Users can select how the count in the title works per:
The count will be “unseen notification” by default, but they can switch it to “unseen page content” if they wish.
We decided to keep Show new / updated topic count on browser icon cause many sites amended the default here and the feature is widely used.
Unseen is kinda… bad copy here. I suggest “New” as a simpler alternative.
I know it’s not 100% accurate but… nobody cares about that level of accuracy, and “unseen” is going to cause misunderstandings.
Fixing it right now!
You can now choose between the two behaviours in your user settings.
