Stream of all latest replies: Would it be useful?

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I run a fairly small Discourse community and I love it, great features for keeping tabs on conversations you’re interested in and discovering new content.

Something I’ve found myself wanting, however, is a better way of reading up on all the latest replies across a myriad of topics. As someone who’s active and invested in the community, I find myself wanting to check out most every reply, erring on the side of “this could be interesting” instead of not. Problem is, this involves a lot of clicking in and out of multiple threads, many times just to view a single reply that I then quickly scan and determine whether or not it’s interesting to me. Or, I have a strong interest in a specific category, and want to read up on anything posted in that category.

One idea I had to solve this was to somehow display a list of ALL the latest replies to ANY thread, either across multiple categories or in a single category, and then of course the list would live-update and allow you to reply directly from that page. Like a continuous “stream of consciousness” that I can read and reply to without having to click through different topics repeatedly.

Just going off the basic concept, what are your guys thoughts on a feature like this? Does it sound useful, or is it impractical? Does it actually solve a user need? Would more than a handful of people actually use it? What kind of community would be interested in something like this? Is it within the scope of Discourse?

If it would be useful, how would it be implemented? Would it an optional feature admins could enable? A plugin? Would it be placed in the top bar, e.g. next to “latest”, and take you to a new page, or a sidebar like in Facebook that’s always on and filters to the category you’re currently viewing?

I can throw together some mockups if people need more of a visual idea of what I’m talking about.

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I have thought about it before, but I feel the use case is narrow. Someone who reads every post, or a moderator, or the site is super low volume. You would lose some (all?) topic context as well, with a stream of the latest replies showing in topic like layout…

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What if it’s only for tracked/bookmarked/watched topics?

Yeah there’d have to be some kind of styling/extra indicators to make sure the original topic, category, etc are properly represented.

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The best argument against it that I can think of is that it potentially breaks Discourse’s entire model, turning it into a glorified chat/shoutbox/social network app with lots of tagging and categorization features, which seems undesirable. Keeping discussion focused around topics seems like the whole point, so creating a view that breaks the topic-based flow of information might be a bad idea.

If that made any sense.

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Check out /posts.json . There’s no UI, because it’s more useful for consumption by programs than by humans…

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I just tried here. The returned JSON had 46 posts.
Seems that should be enough.

But I’m thinking this would be better as a plugin (or maybe an app?) than a feature

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My thoughts as well, given the narrow use case.

Maybe I’ll brush up on Ruby and give it a shot.

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Just wondering if @jspautsch or anybody worked on this in the end?

I’d like to be able to offer an option of a stream-based layout in addition to the regular layouts for those who prefer to consume information in this way (ala Facebook, LinkedIn etc). Have tried searching but not found anything related to this topic hence re-opening an old one.

Guessing it would be a case of pulling in the posts.json and formatting it but no idea where to start with that!

Ruth

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Olá,
Gostaria de ter essa funcionalidade também — temos muitos usuários interagindo com os tópicos dessa forma e é muito mais fácil se manter informado (ou como fazer de outra forma?).

Como iniciante, qual é o processo para obter isso? Vejo que existe um posts.json, mas não tenho certeza de quão difícil é filtrar. Isso envolve modificar o Discourse diretamente ou pode ser feito como um plugin?

Muito obrigado,
g

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Um truque simples seria redirecionar para a função de PESQUISA de posts após uma determinada data (digamos, por exemplo, hoje menos duas semanas. Ou, alternativamente, você pode usar “antes de amanhã”), com os resultados ordenados pelos posts mais recentes. Você veria o que está sendo discutido neste tópico, mas apenas os trechos. Isso lhe daria o contexto de todas as mensagens, e então você precisaria clicar no que lhe interessa para entrar no tópico.

Duas coisas que seriam ótimas:

  1. Poder redirecionar para uma pesquisa totalmente vazia, apenas com o parâmetro “ordenado por posts”.
  2. Talvez uma opção na função de pesquisa (com a possibilidade de acioná-la via URL) para exibir as mensagens completas em vez de trechos. Assim, você já teria praticamente o que está sendo discutido aqui.

Exemplo (posts após 16 de janeiro de 2020, ordenados pelos mais recentes):
https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=after%3A2020-01-16%20order%3Alatest
[Pergunta: Por que o meta não faz onebox?]

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@Mevo: muito obrigado, acabei de descobrir o quão poderoso é o recurso de busca :slight_smile:

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Olá,

o truque de busca é realmente legal, mas ainda preferiria fazer isso de forma mais elegante. Alguém poderia me dar uma lista breve de como fazer isso como um componente? Algo como 5 passos, se possível. Gostaria de usar isso também para criar um módulo para as “imagens” mais recentes.

Muito obrigado.
g

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Olá, essa seria uma funcionalidade interessante da qual eu também já tinha me perguntado antes.

Encontrei por acaso

e percebi que é quase o que precisamos, mas, em vez de apenas um grupo específico, seria legal poder ter todos os grupos ao mesmo tempo nessa aba de atividades e que ela fosse atualizada em tempo real, como a página de mais recentes e assim por diante.