Opt-In Conference Scheme

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Let’s call conference a Category associated with a Group.

A conference has a home page, presenting the conference purpose and possibly inviting users to join, according to the group’s credentials, as in the group’s page. Technically, this home page could be the group’s home page, without the members list.

The conference scheme enables large communities to maintain opt-in work groups or special interest sections, or different language sections without overwhelming all users with notifications and a large number of topics.

This can be implemented as a plugin which I’m interested in programming. I’m proposing this to the community to see if there is traction, and if other people would like to participate. I suppose most of the functionality is already present, and it’s a matter of fixing the pipes to adapt the UI. This “category opt-in” scheme mostly moves the focus from topics to categories.

This scheme has been used in other online forums, e.g., Howard Rheingold’s Brainstorms, where hundreds of users exchange daily, rendering the contents quite overwhelming when you try to follow everything – hint: you can’t. As thousands of posts accumulate in your reading list, you’re very happy to be able to focus on some parts of the community rather than playing catch-up or muting the avalanche of new categories and topics.

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我在 Discourse 3.1.0.beta6 上使用以下协议设置了一个类似的方案：

  1. 启用 mute_all_categories_by_default
  2. 启用 allow_uncategorized_topics
  3. 禁用 suppress_uncategorized_badge
  4. 启用 default_categories_watching_first_post 并设置为“未分类类别”
  5. 将 default_navigation_menu_categories 设置为主（公共）类别
  6. 为每个类别创建一个特定的组（例如，类别名为 foo 的 c-foo…），该组将“跟踪”关联的类别。（自由加入/退出，或根据组的目的请求加入/自由退出）
  7. 为每个类别使用类别描述作为组描述，指明组将为哪些类别提供通知级别。

这是让我认为可能有更好方法的最后一点：确实，我们可以使用关联的类别描述主题作为组页面。