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What does "View = Following" mean in the Community?

Adrian Bruce1
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September 13, 2024 edited January 16 in General Questions

There appears to have been some recent changes to the Community for displaying Discussions.

Home / Recent Discussions / View = All
... appears to do what it says on the tin and shows all the recent discussions. If it doesn't, I don't know what's missing 😉

Home / Recent Discussions / View = Following
... I think this is new. What does "Following" mean? My instinct would have been that it was the same as "My Bookmarks" - but no, plenty of these Following Discussions are not in "My Bookmarks".

Nor does it show Discussions that I have previously viewed, regardless of bookmarks. Some are like that, others are ones I've never opened. So what does it mean?

As an aside, please note that when I go to the Community Home, there's a selection "menu" for Trending Discussions, Answer a Question and Announcements. I usually ignore this selection line totally and go straight for the "View All" link at the bottom, for the simple reason that I never trust 'bulletin board' software that purports to tell me what's trending as I have no idea why the software thinks something is trending.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 18, 2024 Answer ✓

    @Adrian Bruce1 FYI - today

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/167147/new-navigation-options-in-the-community
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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 13, 2024

    I was wondering the same. I'm also seeing "No discussions were found."

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 17, 2024

    And "Recent Discussions" now seems to exist entirely of posts from "Suggest an Idea" - meaning none qualify as "recent."

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  • Adrian Bruce1
    Adrian Bruce1 ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 18, 2024

    Thanks for that - not quite sure what use I'll find for that, if any, since in most cases I want to see everything - just in case.

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