Display unread count only for topics I follow

Stream: Zulip meta

[Vasily Ilin]

How can I display the unread count only for the topics I follow? The unread count is usually in the thousands for me, because I don't use Zulip very often and almost never open some channels. That's not very helpful.

[Johan Commelin]

You can unsubscribe from those channels. That might help.

[Johan Commelin]

But I'm not sure if it's very customizable beyond that...

[Vasily Ilin]

I see, okay, thank you

[Alya Abbott]

We've had some discussion about implementing this option, but were first trying to brainstorm a design that would give some visual indication that this is how your Zulip is configured.

Do folks think having a visual distinction would be important?

[Alex Vandiver]

You can also mute those channels, and unmute the topics you care about in them.

[Alex Vandiver]

For instance, I have #general muted, so it doesn't show up in unreads, but if I unmute one topic with 11 unreads in it, my overall unreads show as 11 now.