Notifications When Followed Member Makes A New Thread

[ThatCatMan]

So let me set the scene. Imagine one day, you haven't had a notification in a month, you've watched many fics, so it's quite unusual for this to happen. You then decide to do some investigative jounalism and find that over a quarter of your followed authors have been writing new stories for months and you never knew because all following authors does is put them on a list.

Yeah. This was an experience I've had.

 

[alethiophile]

Yup.

Sadly, there's nothing we can really do about this. "Follow" in XF is a fairly useless operation.

 

[MissileTeatime]

The "news feed" feature would be perfect for this, actually...
...if we had options to affect what goes on there the way we did with alerts. By default, it shows you everything that everyone you follow is doing, including leaving likes. As if it's trying to be Facebook or something.

 

[ShadowStepper1300]

I find these new stories by watching the forums they write in. Sure, there's a lot of garbage stories thay quickly get dropped, but there's also some great stories I would have never found out about if I hadn't watched the forums.