[$150] Further watch changes

[jmgasper]

@atelomycterus :

Got some additional clarification on the watch stuff. Essentially they want it to work more like a "select all" button:

From @hokienick below:
For example going to this page: https://vanilla.topcoder-dev.com/categories/general-discussion

Click Parent Eyeball On

Expected behavior: All thread eyeballs turn on despite being turned on/off manually at another time

Click off one thread eyeball

Expected behavior: Parent eyeball turns off and no other eyes are affected (this currently works)

Click Parent Eyeball On Again

Same behavior as Click Parent Eyeball On above

Click Parent Eyeball Off

Expected behavior: All thread eyeballs turn off despite being turned on/off manually previously.

[jmgasper]

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[jmgasper]

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[atelomycterus]

@jmgasper Implemented in PRs: #596, topcoder-platform/forums-groups-plugin#86. A few questions about watching page.

The recent changes affect Watching page and Watching Count in the left menu.

Previously the counting was simple. Watching Count = Count of Watched Categories (turned on manually)+ Count of Watched Discussions (turned on manually).

After the last changes, Count of Watched Categories is calculated in the same way.

Count of Watched Discussions - becomes more complicated if users are watching a category and all discussions with the green eyeballs (or the second case: turned off one discussion). We need to update all user Profiles (update User fields in cache, update user fields in DB), etc every time after posting new discussions or user logging in.

It is not entirely clear which discussions to show on Watching page. Should all watched discussions be displayed on Watching page if users are watching a category? Or should all discussions turned on manually be displayed only?

[atelomycterus]

@jmgasper Please apply PR-topcoder-platform/forums-groups-plugin#87. Thanks!

[jmgasper]

@atelomycterus - I wonder if we can just turn off the counts on the left? If they're going to affect performance, I don't think they're necessarily that useful.

I'll ask Topcoder how they want to display things

[jmgasper]

@atelomycterus - The changes here look good. I'm going to close this out and we'll think about the counts separately.

[jmgasper]

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[sdgun]

@jmgasper Verified in Dev, works as mentioned in public forums, are we not implementing this in challenge forums?

[jmgasper]

@sdgun - Where in the challenge forum are you not seeing it work? We can log a new ticket for that.

[atelomycterus]

@sdgun @jmgasper It is implemented for Public forums only. Please see the original issue (#577 (comment)).

[atelomycterus]

@jmgasper

I wonder if we can just turn off the counts on the left? If they're going to affect performance, I don't think they're necessarily that useful.

Sure, we can turn off the Watching count. Let's wait for a response from Topcoder.

[sdgun]

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