Abandon »New« Status in Forums

1 Reasons to Abandon Feature

The feature raises more questions than it answers.
It is not easy to understand the difference between "new" and "unread". Supplemented by two alert codes that need to be interpreted.
It is difficult to make such a detailed decision on a global level.

For those users who want to look into it, these lines of code can be recommended:

• https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/blob/trunk/Modules/Forum/classes/class.ilObjForum.php#L56
• https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/blob/trunk/Modules/Forum/classes/class.ilObjForum.php#L28

2 Technical Information

Removing the feature helps to reduce clutter and confusion in the forum. It would also mean an improvement in terms of performance.

The setting in the administration should be abandoned. This will make the complete setting "Display Information" obsolete.

For users of the forum, the information "New [n]" will be omitted. – a) in the thread tab of forums, b) in the ListGUI (e.g. in Repository) as well as in KS Items (e.g. Dashboard)

3 Contact

• Author of the Request: Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
• Maintainer: Jansen, Michael [mjansen]
• Implementation of the feature is done by: Helfer, Fabian [fhelfer] & Jansen, Michael [mjansen]

4 Funding

Removing the feature from the ILIAS code base might need funding. If you are interest in funding this request, please add your name and institution to this list.

• Databay AG

5 Discussion

Use the following discussion section to express your objections against this request or your consent to get rid of this feature.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 31 OCT 2022 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and abandon the "New" status in forums with ILIAS 9. Please check if testcases are related to this decision and update them.

6 Implementation

Global setting, display in thread tab and associated code has been removed.

Removed Testcases

There was no test case that distinguished between "new" and "unread" posts and would have tested the former function at all.

Accordingly, no test cases were modified or removed.

Approval

Approved at 2023-01-06 by Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila].