Forum subscription

[J Bytheway]

Possibly this is in the FAQ, but I couldn't find it...

What does it mean to subscribe to a forum? It appears to do nothing but add that forum to my control panel.

[Martin Gühmann]

Yes and from your profile you can enter the subscribed fora, see if there is something new there, go to the last post and post from your profile a new thread. Actual very useful if you use your controll panel as start page for the fora. But this is actual no option for me I use the links from the reply notification forum e-mailer. And I don't use cookies therefore I don't want to log in immediately, just to read the forum pages.

-Martin

[J Bytheway]

It might be nice if you were notified by e-mail of new threads in forums to which you were subscribed.

[MarkG]

It appears to do nothing but add that forum to my control panel

that's its purpose

you can then booomark your control panel and use that as your starting page

[Zoid]

Basically, what it means is that Poly sends you a e-mail whenever anyone answers in a thread you´ve subscribed to. Utterly useless IMO, cause all it does is clutter up your mailbox with notification e-mails. If it could somehow distinguish between a answer to me or an answer to someone else, then it would be useful. Fortunately you can disable the subscribe option in the cp.

[J Bytheway]

I was talking about forum subscription - that's thread subscription.

[DarkCloud]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
It might be nice if you were notified by e-mail of new threads in forums to which you were subscribed.

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You would be deluged by emails in that case. Especially if you subscribed to one of the more popular fora.

For it to work well, it would be best if it mailed you all the threads started 'that day'

[Mercator]

Is it by any chance possible to turn off e-mail notification (but still being able to subscribe to threads and get the updates in your cp only)?

[DarkCloud]

Not that I know of Mercator- Mark may have other answers, however

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Mercator
Is it by any chance possible to turn off e-mail notification (but still being able to subscribe to threads and get the updates in your cp only)?

Go to Control Panel -> Edit Options -> Use 'Email Notification' by default?

Originally posted by DarkCloud
You would be deluged by emails in that case. Especially if you subscribed to one of the more popular fora.

For it to work well, it would be best if it mailed you all the threads started 'that day'

Obviously I don't read the more popular forums... In the CTP ones its usually only two or three threads per day.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
I was talking about forum subscription - that's thread subscription.

DOH! But the basics are the same I assume? Forum subscription would therefore be even worse, right?

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Kamrat X
DOH! But the basics are the same I assume? Forum subscription would therefore be even worse, right?

No, that's what I was puzzled about. It seems that forum subscription does nothing but add the forum to your control panel so that you can use it for quickly accessing your forums and seeing where new posts are.

[Zoid]

That would actually be pretty useful...

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
For it to work well, it would be best if it mailed you all the threads started 'that day'

Or only one email per day which includes all the subcribed threads with a reply in it.

-Martin

[Lucilla]

Originally posted by J Bytheway


Go to Control Panel -> Edit Options -> Use 'Email Notification' by default?

I tried that, but what it does is not subscribe me to the thread so that it also won't show up on the control panel...