id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 3393 User subscribtions peterkueger "Would be nice to subscribe users. Until now, each user can subscribe to forums and topics, but not to other users. Maybe he likes the postings of a special user and wants to read all his posts. Other very public social media sites are implementing this feature by ""Followers"". The ""bbp_is_user_subscribed"" function has a parameter ""type"", but it will not be stored into the database. So currently, only ""post"" as ""type"" works. Maybe ""user"" could be a ""type"" too? This could be implemented by changing the code of bbpress/includes/common/engagements.php, line 578 from {{{ $key = ( bbp_get_forum_post_type() === $post_type ) ? '_bbp_forum_subscriptions' : '_bbp_subscriptions'; }}} to {{{ $key = ( bbp_get_forum_post_type() === $post_type ) ? '_bbp_forum_subscriptions' : ( ( 'user' === $post_type ) ? '_bbp_user_subscriptions' : '_bbp_subscriptions' ); }}} Additional, it must be handled in the functions ""bbp_notify_topic_subscribers"" and ""bbp_notify_topic_subscribers"" (bbpress/includes/common/functions.php, line 1063) from {{{ $user_ids = bbp_get_subscribers( $topic_id ); }}} to {{{ if ( ! $reply_author ) $reply_author = bbp_get_reply_author( $reply_id ) $user_ids = array_unique( array_merge( bbp_get_subscribers( $topic_id ), bbp_get_subscribers( $reply_author, 'user' ) ) ); }}} Btw: The subscriptions are stored ""global"", not like other settings (f.e. '_bbp_topic_count', '_bbp_reply_count', 'bbp_last_activity' and '_bbp_last_posted') PS I searched about this request in the tracker, but I didn't found it. I hope, I searched good enough..." enhancement closed low API - User Relationships normal maybelater