Remove user filter on any click

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1

https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-filter-by-user-on-any-link-click/127614

I had posted this on meta a while back but don’t think it’s going to happen on their end so I figured I’d give it a try.

Any advice for how to get started/where to look would be super appreciated. :slight_smile:

2

Cool, just to clarify:

  1. User filters topic
  2. User clicks on any internal topic link (i.e. where they stay in the topic but move to a different stop), then filter is removed?

What about use of the topic timeline?

3

Yup that’s right.
Think it makes sense for timeline to maintain the filter.

Cases where it feels “bugged” are notifications, links to posts, links to replies, quotes, etc.

4

hm, I’m still not 100% on the scope of issue, partiuclarly for things like notifications. Is the user clicking a notification about the topic in the topic? Could you walk through every step of the different cases of the issue, i.e.

  1. User is in topic

  2. User selects a filter

  3. …

The specifics matter a fair bit here.

5

Yup.

  1. User is in topic.
  2. User filters by User A’s posts.
  3. User gets a notification of a new post in the topic (by User B)
  4. User clicks on notification
  5. User ends up on last post by User A and NOT post by User B.

You can replace 3 and 4 with “clicks on a link in the topic that goes to a post in the topic by not User A” such as the arrow in the quote below.