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J-Mac Inner circle Ridley Park, PA 5338 Posts |
Please reconsider the policy of never sending notifications of replies to your posts. I know about getting notified if you start a thread - I don't mean that; it's worthless if you are replying to any post in an existing thread, which makes up most of the forum posts. If everyone always started a new thread just for replies the forum would be a mess.
I haven't come across another forum that does not offer email notifications. When you surf around the subforums here and post in several, it is nearly impossible to return to each one to see if you received any replies to your post. Thank you. Jim |
Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4849 Posts |
Jim, ever hear of red mugs? When ever a new post is received in a forum, the coffee mug turns to red. That reduces some of the burden of looking for replies.
As mentioned before, if that capability were allowed, you could be buried in emails. Suppose your favorite forum was the workers which is for card effects. You could post a reply say in the morning and not return to the Café until later that evening. If the topic is a good one, you could receive 50 or more emails saying you have a reply and that's just from one forum. Think about it. Do you really want that many emails coming to you? On the other hand, you've been here 4 months and have posted 4 times. How much of a problem is the lack of noticification causing you? no one has actually replied to any of your posts specifically. You would get a notice every time a post was made. There's no way to have the Café determine if the new post was in response to yours. You may never get a response but you would get a notice form every post.
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J-Mac Inner circle Ridley Park, PA 5338 Posts |
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On 2009-10-22 15:43, Dave Scribner wrote: Thank you for the reply Dave, but red coffee mugs? Not really a help IMO. Quote:
As mentioned before, if that capability were allowed, you could be buried in emails. Suppose your favorite forum was the workers which is for card effects. You could post a reply say in the morning and not return to the Café until later that evening. If the topic is a good one, you could receive 50 or more emails saying you have a reply and that's just from one forum. Think about it. Do you really want that many emails coming to you? I suspect you are not familiar with the vast majority of forum software, Dave. Only oone email notification is sent per forum/subforum thread. You will not receive another for that particular thread until you click on the link of the previous one. Works like that in every forum software I have used - and I have administered several. Quote:
On the other hand, you've been here 4 months and have posted 4 times. How much of a problem is the lack of noticification causing you? no one has actually replied to any of your posts specifically. And I would participate more if I thought I had a chance of actually seeing any replies. Quote:
You would get a notice every time a post was made. There's no way to have the Café determine if the new post was in response to yours. You may never get a response but you would get a notice form every post. Not true, Dave. See my comment above. Notifications would be one per forum thread with no more sent until you act on the previous one. If this forum software does not have that feature then it is way, way behind the current standard. I am not mandating what should happen; I didn't make these comments up from thin air. I am just making a suggestion based on forum software behavior in virtually every other forum in use today. Thank you. Jim |
Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4849 Posts |
Jim, thanks for the suggestion however this has been discussed several times previously in this forum. There are many things on the plate for our tech folks and this may be possible in the future but not right away.
In the meantime, the best we have is the red/white coffee mugs which do show when new posts have been made to a forum.
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