Topic: subscription to forums
It would be nice if e-mail subscriptions to topics would be extended to forums and/or even the whole punbb site. I guess it's not hard to implement, and does not add clutter to Pun
Re: subscription to forums
I think the idea is that you can subscribe to seperate topics, but use the RSS generated by extern.php for forums...
LOLOWNIA wrote:
and does not add clutter to Pun
Well it does in a way, lots of people are asking for a thousand options and permissions for the smallest things.
Re: subscription to forums
To be honest I did such modification myself. I added a simple field to user table called "SpecialNotification". In profile when set to true user receives notification about each post on a forum. The new users should have default value of this field set up by admin. In smaller communities true as default would be great.
Thus this function would be great to have in a release and it's not complicated to do as few lines of code should be added. The subscribed notification mechanism has a function which filters messages sent by users to forum. Additional parameter based on the setting sends all.
Easy.
J.
Re: subscription to forums
Lets use this site as an example
http://punbb.org/forums/search.php?action=show_24h gives me 24 topics. Which means there are at least 24 new posts, but a lot more in reality. Lets just say 30, which is probably too low.
Total number of registered users: 5719
5719 * 30 = 171,570
That is the number of emails that this site would send per day
Plus, no one has a legitimate need to see all the posts in this forum: would you want to see the stuff in the Test forum?
In other words, yes, it is clutter, since sending out 5719 emails for every post consumes a lot of resources
Re: subscription to forums
Smartys,
of course you are right. But as I wrote this is suitable for small communities. My forum has only 21 users. :-)
Besides not all forums are so extraordinary like this one :-)
I just can state: congrats :-)
J.
Re: subscription to forums
21 * 20 = 420
420 emails is still a large number
Re: subscription to forums
I would be glad if they would write anything. For a starting forum sometimes it's not the case. To be exact in statistics during last few months (it is a family forum) most wrote nothing or few emails. Average is 2 mails per 6 months.
:-)
I understand your position but please remember that this function wisely used (with proper management warning) can still be quite useful!
Greetings,
Jacek L.
Re: subscription to forums
Except it would be useless for a good deal of forums, and thus bloat 
If you want it, you can find a mod or just use an RSS feed