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Support the set of features related to following topics

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#1,485 opened on Apr 22, 2024

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GSoCTRACKINGfeature parity: 08help wantedmissing feature: user

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Description

Opening this to track everything that followed-topics involves, which is summarized at https://zulip.com/help/follow-a-topic#follow-a-topic

Core state tracking & display:

  • Ensure that muted topic features are complete (initialize, events, UI) #745
  • Extend topic-specific data to support the 'user-topic' concept (default/muted/followed/"unmuted")
  • Show & update topic state in UI (topic list, top of message list?, message topic header?)

Notifications:

  • Track notification settings locally (initialize + settings events)
  • Notifications based on followed topics

Settings changes via Terminal

  • Allow adjusting of whether topics are followed via UI (topic popup)

Variant of n key

  • Support for cycling through only followed unread topics (N)

The tracking issue in the main repo ended up being zulip/zulip#25673

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Research direction
Start by understanding the 'follow a topic' feature from the Zulip help page. Then, look at the first sub task: ensuring muted topic features are complete in the terminal client. Check the existing code for topic state management and test files. This will give you a foundation to tackle subsequent tasks.
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