I always wanted this too. To make it work well, it would have to be server side. But I doubt that will happen, also it might even take up a bit of work on the server to remember who is following what, and to send them the notifications correctly.

I was thinking of some client side thing once, where it would remember how many comments each save had, and when it was last updated, and then give some symbol / notification in the search ui when there was something new on one of the saves. This probably wouldn't be too hard, although this feature is more meant for a server side thing ...

I have all my saves that I want to read all the comments on, and I always end up clicking most of them to see if there are any new ones, even though there usually aren't ... (except for 1)

But this suggestion makes my idea much more feasible client side, before I was thinking I would have to remember how many comments all the saves had, but having "subscriptions" to saves works much better. Also I never thought of the notifying when a save is resaved, i'll have to check if that is also possible to see before entering a save preview.

@hittox (View Post)
yes lol

@cyberdragon (View Post)
maybe ... although some people might like that separate (but probably not)


Maybe sometime soon i'll go ahead and try to work on this, client side. I might ask Simon if he can do it server side though ... but client side is probably a better idea.


Edit: my original idea was that there would be a new "comment" icon thing on the top left of saves when there were new comments. I'm not sure if a number would fit inside of any new icons though, it might take like 3 icons. I also thought maybe I could make the border outline color mean different things (ex. one for new comments, one for updated saves, etc.)

@dom2mom (View Post)
following users isn't very simple at all to get working client side, that should definitely be something the server does. If it were client side, it would have to do multiple searches every time you start the game for user:<username>, and display the notifications then, but that doesn't really work well and adds more load onto the server. This suggestion here would just use data already sent by the server when searching for saves.