Feature Request: invitation to follow promoted tags when reading posts

[clarkwinkelmann]

Feature Request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

This is an idea that came up from a use case we have on discuss.flarum.org. We want more people to know they can follow the Blog tag for important updates by email.

Describe the solution you'd like

We could add an option in the tag edit modal, something like "Promote tag following".

When you read a discussion in a promoted tag, a banner would be shown, for example above the first post content or in the Hero, to promote following the tag.

Something like "Follow [Tag] for important news and security updates [Tag Follow Dropdown]". Maybe it should even include a dropdown or checkbox to enable the email notifications for Follow Tags.

Most likely the text would need to be customizable. Or we could just have a default translation and people can customize with Linguist. If we pass the tag slug as a translator parameter, the new ICU translation format could even be used by the forum owner to have different translations for different tags.

When I was thinking of this feature I was thinking of something like the Discord "follow this channel" banner. But either they changed it or I misremembered because it no longer looks as impressive as I thought it once was.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Right now we need to tell people to visit the tag page to see the dropdown. Many people either never visited the tag page or might have never noticed the follow dropdown.

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I could work on this feature. I'll just leave this as a suggestion for now in case anyone has feedback. This could also be made as a standalone companion extension if we don't want it in the base extension.