Reactively show number of unread comments in a thread?

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I’m making a forum type app with Threads and Comments within a Thread. I’m trying to figure out how to show the total number of unread comments within a thread to each user.

I considered publishing all the Comments for every Thread, but this seems like excessive data to be publishing to the client when all I want is a single number showing the unread Comments. But if I start adding metadata to the Thread collection (such as numComments, numCommentsUnread…), this adds extra moving parts to the app (i.e. I have to track every time a different user adds a Comment to a Thread, etc…).

What are some of the best practices for dealing with this?

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Can’t you just use the publish counts package to figure out the number on the server side, and then simply get that number from the client?

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