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Forum Feature Request: Topic Subscriptions

Last post 08:55 am November 18, 2019 by Steven Busse
5 replies
Steven Busse
09:27 am November 4, 2019

Hi

There's a lot questions asked, answered and discussed in this forum. Some come here to only ask one or two questions or inform about their passed exam. Some come here to stay and engage in lots of discussions going on, becoming part of the community this forum has become.

I don't have the time to really read each and every discussion. But I like participating in discussions where I think that my insights could be valuable. The problem is that it is very hard to follow this discussions if you'r not keeping track of them on a daily basis. AFAIK there's no place where you could subscribe to a topic, get a chronological list of your latest posts or anything like that. The only way to keep track of discussions you'd like to follow is remembering/bookmarking and checking them every time you visit.

It would be really nice if something like a subscription for discussions you started or contributed to could be introduced. I'm pretty sure this would also help keeping up the flow in the discussions going on and reduce the amount of questions answered into the void without any feedback of the person who initially asked the question.

Harshal Rathee
01:49 pm November 4, 2019

Nice idea @Steven !! :-)

Bouke Bergsma
07:17 pm November 4, 2019

Not that I don't like it, but there is at least one social caveat. These subscription systems have in common that you get a set of people who only go look when there is something new in their "special threads", and then only look at those threads. Meaning that some threads can become interesting and bustling subcultures around certain topics, but many new/unrelated/miscellaneous threads go unnoticed. Meaning that this type of power-user customization can lead to a decrease in social intermingling. Or, to put it more bluntly, these features can lead to navel-gazing.

I am getting a vision a party where all people who already know each other stand and talk in small groups, and if someone new comes in no one even notices.

BTW, pretty sure they are keeping it simple on purpose... You can't be the first one coming up with these improvements :)

Steven Busse
11:12 am November 14, 2019

Sorry, forgot to follow up (scnr ;-)

Any statement from scrum.org on this?

Eric Naiburg
04:55 pm November 14, 2019

Thank you for the suggestion and we will take it under consideration and add the ideas to the backlog for prioritization.

Steven Busse
08:55 am November 18, 2019

Thank you, Eric.

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