Follow an authors contributions to a pad in real time in Etherpad.
To follow an author click on the users icon in the user area.
Followed AuthorIDs are stored in cookies so you will automatically follow them in future pads.
Following of authors does not happen within 5 seconds of an edit event by the user or within 1 second of a pad being loaded. This is to stop focus being drawn when an author is editing a pad.
Option 1.
Use the /admin interface, search for ep_author_follow and click Install
Option 2.
npm install ep_author_follow
Option 3.
cd your_etherpad_install/node_modules
git clone https://github.com/ether/ep_author_follow
followAll [default: false] follows every author by default.
enableFollow [default: true] follows followed authors when they edit.
"ep_author_follow":{
"followAll" : true,
"enableFollow" : true
}
Please submit bug reports or patches at https://github.com/ether/ep_author_follow/issues
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