A simple "refresh every X seconds/auorefresh" checkbox for when you're following a thread. If we want to be fancy, it can query the server for a bit of JSON and update with JS; or query for "hey, is there anything new" and refresh if yes. Or just auto-refresh. The time can be constant, or 5s, then 10s, then 20s, etc (resets to 5s if something new happens).

A notification would be good so you know a topic you follow was updated. This can use the browser's notification system, or change the favicon, or only put a little icon next to the username. Topics you're subscribed to and have been updated should be in a list, ordered by recency.

i thought about it a bit, im a bit wary of adding new posts directly to the page you're on, i don't want to break pagination. im wary of autorefresh too because it may erase what you're writing. though autocomplete is smart enough now to remember, and we can make it conditional (textarea is empty -> allow refresh). i think the best approach though is a SSE or WebSocket subscription that gets initiated when you view a thread and the server sends to it if there was a new post in the thread. then a little unintrusive toast can be shown with a link to the latest post.

Sounds good yes

this is in main now. an SSE subscription gets initiated when you view a thread. when a new post appears, a notification will appear in the bottom right, with three buttons: clicking dismiss will ignore that particular post and re-initialize the subscription, so when another post appears, the notification will appear again. clicking view post will take you to the post. clicking stop updates will dismiss the notification without restarting the subscription (until you go to another thread or refresh)

whoah, this is very good

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this is in main now. an SSE subscription gets initiated when you view a thread. when a new post appears, a notification will appear in the bottom right, with three buttons:

clicking dismiss will ignore that particular post and re-initialize the subscription, so when another post appears, the notification will appear again. clicking view post will take you to the post. clicking stop updates will dismiss the notification without restarting the subscription (until you go to another thread or refresh)

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this is very nice, i feel

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