It's seems right that we should have a local community to help us all with PieFed
Yeah the notification bell is intended for this.
However I find the notifications about new posts are mixed in with the notifications about replies to my comments, new registrations, etc which is a bit confusing and makes me not use the notification bell as much as I want to (because my notifs would be flooded with new post notifs).
If notifications had a type and were grouped / sorted / paged by type then we could have a much greater volume of notifications.
It would be great to group notifications with different priorities as well. A mod report has a different weight than does a reply than does a notification that someone posted in a group. Perhaps something for a future roadmap?
Yeah, same - rely on notifications mainly. Although I usually browse by subscribed/new so I'd probably see the post anyway.
In terms of a 'favourites' column, I guess it'd just be a subset of Subscribed, so maybe just adding an extra field to CommunityMember would be enough. After the join, it'd be something like:
posts = posts.filter(CommunityMember.user_id == current_user.id, CommunityMember.is_favourite == True)
Yeah something like that, obviously it would need to change the DB schema to add is_favourite. I'm also not sure if a lot of people have this problem or if the notification solution is good enough for everyone.
I also browse by subscribed/new but when I sleep or work or am with my family - which combined is like 23,5 hours a day - then I'm not looking there and then it gets pushed down by the high volume of posts so I miss it.
I do the same and activate the notification bell for those kinds of communities.
As you are selfhosting PieFed: you could simply create a new topic and add all your low volume communities there
Ah, yes I am, hm didn't think of they, this is a great idea!