what does sound/mute button do?

[crazycells]

Hi @phenomlab ,

I could not understand what this button does…

Is it for RSS or something like that?

[phenomlab]

@crazycells No, it’s for watching and not watching a category which triggers an email alert if checked. If you click it, it’ll turn orange with a mute symbol meaning you’ll be alerted via email whenever something new is posted in that category.

Click it again, and it’ll unfollow the same category. I went with icons here because of the screen estate on mobile devices to prevent overlap with buttons…

[phenomlab]

@crazycells I think a better icon - or one that is more descriptive should be used on reflection…

[crazycells]

@phenomlab so “following a category” is different than “watching a category” , right?

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Yes. If you follow it (subscribe), you’ll get a notification each time someone posts a new topic.

“Watching” a topic or category only determines if you see new posts etc. in recent view - for example

[crazycells]

@phenomlab said in what does sound/mute button do?:

@crazycells Yes. If you follow it (subscribe), you’ll get a notification each time someone posts a new topic.

is it achieved by a plugin?

so, can we say that it does the same function as this RSS button does?

[crazycells]

but since email subscriptions won the battle over RSS many years ago, you provide a more modern solution

poor RSS…

[phenomlab]

@crazycells It’s a plugin, yes - see

GitHub - NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-category-notifications

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It’s not the same thing as the RSS button - this will only show new topics if you are in fact subscribed to that specific feed with an RSS reader that auto updates.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab maybe you can use the “newsletter” icon?

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Yes, or the bell icon…

[phenomlab]

@crazycells well, RSS still has it’s uses. As an example, I have a script that can pull RSS feeds from anywhere and make NodeBB posts out of them

[crazycells]

@phenomlab said in what does sound/mute button do?:

@crazycells well, RSS still has it’s uses. As an example, I have a script that can pull RSS feeds from anywhere and make NodeBB posts out of them

of course I am still using RSS personally with Thunderbird to follow several news websites and government agencies… I still find it very useful. But I was talking more about the general public

But I guess recently they started to call “podcasts subscriptions” as “RSS audio subscriptions”… I remember seeing this expression somewhere

[phenomlab]

@crazycells yes, I’ve seen this widely used in podcasts also. RSS might be old, but it’s still extremely useful.

[phenomlab]

@crazycells I’ve changed this in DEV so it looks like the below

Subscribed

Unsubscribed

I think this is much clearer now.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab said in what does sound/mute button do?:

I think this is much clearer now.

this is much clearer

I would upvote this, but apparently I cannot upvote you more than 6 times a day

[phenomlab]

@crazycells I can soon change that

[crazycells]

@phenomlab said in what does sound/mute button do?:

@crazycells I can soon change that

I would upvote this too

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Try it ?

[crazycells]

@phenomlab said in what does sound/mute button do?:

@crazycells Try it ?

nope, does not work…

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Yeah, looking at the plugin itself, that’s a hard coded limit

I’ll probably remove that… eventually…