Check out my post from a few days ago:
The āUnreadā tab appears on whenever there are unread posts, so thatās at least fairly discoverable. What I would say is much closer or even analogous to the old āMy subscriptionsā page are these:
- https://budgetlightforum.com/latest?state=tracking
- https://budgetlightforum.com/latest?state=watching
- https://budgetlightforum.com/search?expanded=false&q=in%3Aposted
Especially the first two are extremely useful and inexplicably obscure, to the point where I can only find like 1 reference to them in all of Discourse Meta. I only found about them thanks to @quahog somehow discovering them and posting them here.
Watching is basically the same as the old subscription, just need this link on the side bar
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These are all the exact same page/list.
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No offence but this seems to symbolize Discourseās approach to software design 
Understood
No offense taken, Iām not a Discourse apologist. Discourse got a lot of the fundamentals right, but they do need to improve some aspects. Fortunately itās still flexible enough for the administrator to improve on most of those aspects. Drupal is simply and emphatically not viable anymore (I still need to make another entire post about this), and I am convinced that Discourse is the only viable option for our style of community-moderated forum without a bunch of power-tripping moderators roaming around 24/7.
Oops, thanks a lot. Corrected.
I get what you are saying, and if i recall correctly you had mentioned why Drupal was no longer viable from lack of updates to who knows when it get borked.
And i am not opposed to change or progress, but it needs to be better than what it replaced.
This software is just so disorganized and clunky, its a good exercise in how to do bad design. The irony is that it has a lot of good features but it screws up the fundamentals.
I am curious why you didnāt consider Xenforo or phpBB, i visit forums that use them and they work a lot better than Discourse.
Someone in another thread mentioned Redflagdeals, it uses phpBB and it works well. Lacks some Discourse features but the design is not clunky and confusing.
Xenforo because itās proprietary, phpBB because it used to have a very poor track record with security in the past, and also because itās a disorganized mess on the backend that requires tons of community plugins for basic functionality, just like the situation we were in with Drupal. And most importantly, neither Xenforo nor phpBB allow for automatic actions against inappropriate or spam posts based on flags by other community members.
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Xenforo because itās proprietary, phpBB because it used to have a very poor track record with security in the past, and also because itās a disorganized mess on the backend that requires tons of community plugins for basic functionality, just like the situation we were in with Drupal. And most importantly, neither Xenforo nor phpBB allow for automatic actions against inappropriate or spam posts based on flags by other community members.
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Damn.
It seems forum software is languishing as everyone uses twitter or reddit or facebook
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Yes, I think you hit the nail on the head. Discourse is really the only new blood in this field. Although I didnāt choose it just because itās new, as Iām normally quite conservative with software preferences. But fundamentally Discourse was developed from the ground up by people that understand the challenges of the modern internet, specifically relating to sneaky spamming methods and malicious trolls. Themes and appearances can be tweaked by the admin in any forum, but core functionality like what I mentioned is extremely hard to implement and even harder to get right. It should be noted that Drupal had almost no functionality out-of-the-box; the Spam and Report buttons and their respective algorithms, the email notification system, and even the Subscriptions system were all bespoke creations that took an inordinate amount of time to get right.
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Damn.
Perhaps Drupal should have hired you (and @ToyKeeper ) as programmers to design and update the core software 
Drupal is written in PHP, which is one of the worst-designed programming languages ever. The Drupal devs did an admirable job of compensating for that, but when the tools just arenāt good at what you want them to do, sometimes itās better to give up and find different tools. Building and maintaining a modern web application in PHP is like squeezing blood from a stone.
Of course, I could complain about Ruby too, which is what Discourse usesā¦ but despite its issues, itās still dramatically better than PHP.
All programming languages have āwartsā, so to speakā¦ details and little design flaws which cause problems if you happen to trip over one. But PHP is different. Instead of having warts, it basically is one. Rather than listing whatās wrong with it, like most languages, with PHP it would be easier to list the things which arenāt wrong with it. Itās just fundamentally broken at a deep level.
And eventually this broken foundation led to the end of BLFās old forum platform.
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Egads 
It would be great if it could be set as a landing/home page in settings too.
You can set āUnreadā as your default home page:
Preferences ā Interface ā Default Home Page ā Unread
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Hey! As a power-tripping mod on another non-Discourse forum I ā¦ mostly agree. The utility of the mod is mostly to deal with the lack of what became flagging automation in Discourse.
And as a mod on yet another Discourse forum, the main role of mods is housekeeping and dealing with things that flagging canāt handle - or high trust users canāt/wonāt handle.
Aye. Those require no server architecture nor software maintenance by the administrators. Downside of course as the product youāre at the whims of the platformās interests in appeasing the customer.
Thatās been my observation as well. The UI and general automation has made some decisions that one may dislike at first but are clearly borne out of long hard-won experience about how the real world works as well as some hard-coding of the project teamās philosophy.
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I admit that I did not investigate the link and just assumed its contents. 
What Iām looking for is the option to set a subscription page as my landing page. Iāve seen the links posted to what is essentially a subscription page but that one isnāt available to be selected as a landing page.
Essentially I would like the landing page to show all of my tracked/watched threads, not just one the ones with new replies or edits.
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