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Discourse forum admins lose at-a-glance unread topic count after UI update

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Cluster6 posts · 5 people
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Updated19d ago
The story

The pain

We rely on the unread count on the main page to quickly see if tracked topics have new activity. The recent update removed this, forcing us into extra clicks and hiding critical information. Our users are complaining, and we need a way to restore the old behavior.

Evidence

What people said · 6 complaints, 5 people

There is no easy one-click way to view tracked topics now, you have to do it with 2 clicks, and you can’t see the info at a glance. It’s not gone down well. I’d like a way to reverse it.
ForumShaunyAug 6
Ok, I still find that a bad idea to lose such information from main page My 2 cents after thinking about it for a day or so : If it was really the wording that was confusing, you should just have renamed “Unread” as “Tracked” or something like that, I know I’m late in the discussion, but now I got that on my instance, I’ll see what I can do to get it back this important data with theme or component)
ForumFrederic_BertrandAug 6
not having the “unread” count on the main page is a big loss for me (and some of my users complained too). First thing I want to know when I get on the forum is to see if the topics I’m tracking had activity, having it mixed with the “new” count is not really logic in my point of view, they are not the same things.
ForumFrederic_BertrandAug 3
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