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Fork and follow curators

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When someone publishes a collection, you can follow it to hear about new items, or fork it to get your own copy that you can change. A fork keeps a link to the original, so you can see what the original added later and choose what to take.

Follow a collection or a curator​

  1. Open a public collection (an address that starts with app.readsira.com/c/) or a curator's profile (app.readsira.com/u/ followed by the username).
  2. Select Follow collection on a collection, or Follow on a profile. The button then reads Following.
  3. Select the button again to choose how you hear about updates: As they happen, Daily digest, Weekly digest or No updates. To stop, choose Unfollow.

You need to be signed in to follow. You cannot follow your own collection. You can follow up to 500 collections and curators.

Everything you follow is listed in Settings, Following, with the number of new items for each, and its own update choice. New items also show in the sidebar under Following.

Fork a collection​

  1. Open the public collection and select Fork (an icon in the header). The button is missing when the owner turned forking off.
  2. Signed out? You are sent to create an account first.
  3. Readsira copies the collection and its items into your library and opens the copy. The copy is named after the original and its owner. It is a normal collection: rename it, add items, nest it or delete it.

You cannot fork your own collection.

Pull the original's new items​

A fork has the menu item Fork and parent updates in the sidebar menu of the collection. It shows how many new items the original has, and opens the page that compares your fork with the original.

  1. Open the three-dot menu of the fork and choose Fork and parent updates. The page is titled with the name of your fork, and says which collection it was forked from.
  2. If the original has changed, a summary counts what is new, what was removed and which notes changed. Select the Pull button, which names how many new items it adds, to add them all at once. Your own items and notes are never overwritten, and nothing is removed.
  3. Or decide row by row:
    • Under Added in the source: Add or Ignore.
    • Under Removed in the parent: Remove too or Keep. Items stay in your fork until you decide.
    • Under Notes changed: Use new note or Keep mine.
  4. Under Only in your fork, see what you added yourself.

Ignore and Keep are remembered, so the same item does not come back.

When nothing changed, the page says Your fork is up to date.

Choose what happens when the original changes​

The page also has the setting When the parent changes:

  • Manual: nothing happens until you pull.
  • Notify me: you get a notification when the original adds items.
  • Pull automatically: new items from the original are added once a day. Nothing is ever removed.

Tips​

  • Fork a collection to keep a copy that cannot disappear if the owner makes the original private.
  • You can report a public page from the link at its bottom. A moderator reviews it.
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