Is it possible to receive updated to a =Forum= ?

BigFurryMonster · June 19, 2003, 07:01

Hi,

There is this useful feature "Receive updates to this thread", but is there also something like "Receive updates to this Forum"?

I just want to be noticed of all posts in, say, my Team Forum.

I noticed the button "Subscribe to this Forum" but I think it just doesn't do what I want it to.

alva · June 19, 2003, 07:20

I think you have to activate E-mail notification.

BigFurryMonster · June 19, 2003, 07:32

You mean in the Control Panel? But then it'll send me mail whenever someone replies to any thread I've posted in. Not quite the same as selecting a specific Forum. Plus, I was hoping to get notified whenever a new message would appear in such a Forum...

DrSpike · June 19, 2003, 10:17

I don't think there is such a feature.

Alex · June 19, 2003, 10:29

I thought that subscribing to a forum would allow you to be notified of any posts in that forum, just like a thread. It will be wierd if it doesn't work like that.

Immortal Wombat · June 19, 2003, 11:40

No, subscribe-to-forum it just puts it in your control panel and the bit on the main Apolyton page below your avatar. Thank goodness. It'd be hell receiving email for every post in the 8 forums I'm subscribed to.

Surely you can just read every thread in the forum you want to subscribe to every time you visit? And then go back everytime a little yellow envelope goes red.

FrustratedPoet · June 19, 2003, 12:39

Yeah, what the wombat said.

BigFurryMonster · June 19, 2003, 16:50

Sure, I could, but I'm just a lazy Monster...

Skanky Burns · June 19, 2003, 19:33

Subscribing takes the fun out of hunting for new threads to post in.

ixnay · June 20, 2003, 00:59

Or you could just reply in everything and use My Threads.

Ming · June 20, 2003, 02:05

That's a good suggestion ixnay...

BigFurryMonster · June 20, 2003, 03:38

Reply in everything? Now that would be unrealistic, since I don't have anything to add to =all= the threads.

Seriously - Ming (I don't know if you are in charge of these sort of things), is it a good idea to add the feature I proposed?

Locutus · June 20, 2003, 03:44

Such a feature would overload the server as it would soon have to send out dozens if not hundreds of emails per second.

BigFurryMonster · June 20, 2003, 03:53

Ah - that's a good point, Locutus.

DrSpike · June 20, 2003, 05:45

I get enough email from thread reply notifications.

I guess the guy wanted this for quite quiet forums, since it would be chaotic otherwise.

FrustratedPoet · June 20, 2003, 05:51

I've cut back hugely on the e-mail apolyton sends me. I never subscribe to threads anymore. I use the "reply to everything and use My Threads" approach that Ixnay mentioned.

And I mean the My Threads you get to from the front page, which is far superior to the link on the forum page that the n00bs use.

alva · June 20, 2003, 08:03

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I never subscribe to threads anymore. I use the "reply to everything and use My Threads" approach that Ixnay mentioned.

Replying twice (or more) does not open any secret options to that function...

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And I mean the My Threads you get to from the front page

Always forget about that one..

, ok I'm a NooB eugh nOOb