By dries on

I made an experimental change to the forum module here on drupal.org. If you are an authenticated user and you go to the forum pages, you'll see a new link pointing to a new page with all recent forum topics you participated in (authentication required). The purpose of this page is twofold: (i) make it easy to find your own posts and (ii) make it easy to see if there are new replies.

The code is part of the forum module. I've choosen not to integrate this in the tracker module because I wanted to offer a specialized view and because I believe the recent posts page is something most of us have accommodated to. For new users that are not familiar with the recent posts page it is much more natural to return to the forum page (using the same path), and to go from there.

Anyway, it is an experimental change so let's evaluate it for a while. We might keep it, we might remove it, we might modify it.

Update: I rewrote part of the tracker module and made the forum module integrate with the tracker page. I made the tracker page look more like the (old) 'track your forum discussions'-page. As a result the (old) recent posts page got a facelift too.

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qgil’s picture

qgil commented

Congratulations, I find it very useful in crowded sites like this one.

What about a link also in the recent posts page?

TDobes’s picture

TDobes commented

I like the tracker-based solution better than the forum-specific one. This is an excellent addition and I can assure you I'll end up using it just about every time I visit drupal.org. I always found it bizarre that the "recent posts" page did not take comments into consideration, so this is a welcome change to the tracker.

One minor problem though: For some reason, all "issues" in the list recent posts appear as having 0 comments, no matter how many "follow up"s have actually been added.

...and...

One enhancement idea: We could provide pages such as "tracker/forum" or "tracker/project_issue" to view recent updates in just the forum or just project issues

Anyway, good work! :)

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

I think this a much needed improvement. IIRC the tracker table was sortable before the change. Are you going to out that back in?

If you add the "browse by node type" feature, we could maybe do without that sorting feature.

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ti’s picture

ti commented

I liked the three days when threads where I commented also showed up in the sidebar. Good improvement indeed.

magnestyuk’s picture

magnestyuk commented

I also like the tracker page, but I would really like to see the nodes listed on it grouped together by node type, with newest first sort order. Then, those that are currently linked from the tracker page as "your active posts and forum discussions" could be marked in some way so that they stand out from all other new content.

Is there anyone else who'd like to see the tracker page behave this way? Is it hard to implement? (I don't know anything about module development...)

Thanks.

ixis.dylan’s picture

ixis.dylan commented

I'd like to see the ability to pass a category or type to the tracker, too. I'm converting a non-Drupal site to Drupal, and on the old site I've created several seperate links for content posted since the user's last visit, displayed like this:

new posts (4)
new pages (1)
new comments (6)
new journals (2)

I'd like to do something similar with Drupal, because I find the "everything under one roof" approach of the tracker confusing, and I suspect the site users will too until we all get used to it. Sorting (and styling/colouring) the tracker rows by type would be a good compromise.

Rick Cogley’s picture

Rick Cogley commented

Hello and thank you for an excellent application!

On my site, I can only see forum posts in the /tracker module, but on drupal.org, there are many different types of posts for both "all posts" and "my posts". What can I do to enable this?

Rick Cogley :: rick.cogley@esolia.co.jp
Tokyo, Japan