# Revitalizing the Discourse Hub

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Tags:** discourse-hub\
**Created:** [24 באפריל,‏ 2014,‏ 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029 "2014-04-24T07:49:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![codetricity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codetricity/32/3773_2.png) [@codetricity](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codetricity)\
**Post date:** [25 באפריל,‏ 2014,‏ 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029/10 "2014-04-25T17:30:30Z")

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First, I appreciate this opportunity to give feedback from a user’s perspective direct to the head of the company.

In my personal use, I would like a central console to see all the posts and unread messages from all the Discourse communities that I am a part of. This could be something like Google Mail where I switch between personal and company emails, but can stay in the same browser tab. Right now, I need to type in the URL for different communities, thus I don’t see the updates from some communities as often as I would like. This would be an even bigger need if I were to get clients that used Discourse and had to monitor multiple forums. Currently, I am in three Discourse forums that I want to monitor. One of the forums is not hosted by Discourse.

The second thing I want from a central Discourse Hub is to customize my account. There are two aspects of this:

1. sharing settings similar to how I can share my settings across multiple chrome browsers with my Google account
2. sharing add-ins across my Discourse communities.

The concept of a user being able to add a plug-in or extension just for themselves is new. In a browser, this exists. One of the features that I would want a user plugin for is the editor syntax highlighting. In particular, I would want to add a plugin that automatically added in line numbers.

As a user, I would also like to add in a plugin dictionary for Japanese to English language conversion.

I am also interested in tracking user threads instead of just by topic. The reason is that I think some people have more thought-provoking ideas than others. For these people, I would be interested in what they had to say across many different forums. I would like to bookmark people across multiple forums.

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