Hello,
A couple of weeks ago some of the eagle eyed among you noticed there were some changes made to bookmarks. Unfortunately these changes were accidentally released a little too early - so some features were broken, and, understandably, many of you were a bit concerned. We're sorry about that.
The first change was to improve the visibility of the bookmarking feature on your mobile devices. We removed the bookmarking option from the dotted menu and created a new icon, and added some styling which changed the colour of the bookmarked post. These changes seemed to be received well and so we're going to release these in the wild today - please let us know if you've any questions or suggestions about any of that.
The second part of the change was related to how bookmarking interacts with 'Threads I'm Watching' - if you saw the changes you will have noted that by clicking 'bookmark' this automatically added the thread to your watch list. The reason we did this was based on a survey we asked users to fill in here back in February. The overwhelming feedback from this survey was that some users found it frustrating that they also had to separately add a thread to TIW and they thought this should be automatic. BUT it's clear from what you told us that there are other ways people use bookmarks, so you'll be glad to know we won't be releasing that part. We hold our hands up and admit we got that wrong, but we'll be reworking the solution to perhaps include a preference so you can choose whether you want that option or not per thread. As always, any suggestions on how you think we could best do that are always welcome.
It will be really useful to hear your thoughts on bookmarking and the threads I'm on/watching/started so that we don't miss something important - please feel free to add any feedback you have to this thread.
Thanks
MNHQ