Enhanced Subscriptions for Flarum

An enhanced subscription system for Flarum with extended notification options and subscription analytics.

✨ Features

🎯 Follow OP Subscriptions

• Follow OP option: Get notifications only when the original poster replies
• Three subscription states: Following (all replies), Following OP (OP only), Ignore
• Perfect for tutorials, guides, and serialized content where OP responses are most important

📊 Subscription Analytics

• Display total follower count for each discussion
• Real-time subscription counts in discussion lists
• Visual indicators with star icons
• Always visible metrics (shows 0 when no followers)

🌍 Multi-language Support

• Full Chinese (Simplified) translations included
• Seamless bilingual interface support
• Easy to extend with additional languages

📋 Requirements

• Flarum 1.8 or higher
• PHP 8.0 or higher

🚀 Installation

composer require zhihe/subscriptions
php flarum extension:enable zhihe-subscriptions

⚠️ Important: This extension replaces the core flarum/subscriptions extension. Disable the original subscriptions extension before enabling this one.

🔧 Usage

For Users

1. Following: Receive notifications for all replies to a discussion
2. Following OP: Only get notified when the original poster responds
3. Ignore: Stop all notifications from a discussion

For Administrators

• Subscription counts are automatically displayed in discussion lists
• All existing subscription data is preserved during migration
• No additional configuration required

🗄️ Database Schema

The extension adds a new subscription type to the existing schema:

-- Extends discussion_user.subscription enum
ALTER TABLE discussion_user 
MODIFY COLUMN subscription ENUM('follow', 'ignore', 'follow_op');

🛠️ Development

Local Development Setup

git clone https://github.com/echolocked/zhihe-subscriptions.git
cd zhihe-subscriptions
composer install
cd js && npm install && npm run build

Keeping Updated

This extension maintains compatibility with the original flarum/subscriptions:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/flarum/subscriptions.git
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/main

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

📄 License

MIT License - Compatible with original Flarum subscriptions extension.

🙏 Credits

• Based on flarum/subscriptions by the Flarum Team
• Enhanced and maintained by the Zhihe development team

🆘 Support

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Community: Flarum Community Forum

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