#1 2015-10-29 11:28:06

photonucleon

Thursday

From: out of that impossible sky

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 299

Forum email notifications

IIRC on the #! forums when you got an email notification about a new post in a thread you were subscribed to, the email would contain the text (up to a certain length limit) of what was posted, rather than just notify you that a post had been made. Could this also happen with the BL forums? Just a tentative suggestion - if it's better/people like it the way it currently is, that's fine

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The servant lifted off a kind of ottoman a long peacock-blue drapery, rather of the nature of a domino, on the front of which was emblazoned a large golden sun, and which was splashed here and there with flaming stars and crescents. “You’re to be dressed as Thursday, sir,” said the valet somewhat affably.

johnraff

nullglob

From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 12,661

Website

Re: Forum email notifications

Go to your profile > Privacy then click the box:
"Set your subscription options
Include a plain text version of new posts in subscription notification emails."

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ohnonot

...again

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 5,592

Re: Forum email notifications

actually there's even a "Include private messages content" checkbox. RTM.

photonucleon

Thursday

From: out of that impossible sky

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 299

Re: Forum email notifications

Ah. Didn't spot that. My bad.  :8

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The servant lifted off a kind of ottoman a long peacock-blue drapery, rather of the nature of a domino, on the front of which was emblazoned a large golden sun, and which was splashed here and there with flaming stars and crescents. “You’re to be dressed as Thursday, sir,” said the valet somewhat affably.

Eon

Member

From: Earth

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 76

Re: Forum email notifications

Hi folks.

Is there any way I can subscribe to a topic/thread and not get email notifications? i.e. the user can get notifications in forum itself (as well).

P. S. I subscribed to an off-topic thread, and then my mailbox got loads of notifications. Back to my question. ;O

Regards,
Eon

Last edited by Eon (2016-04-27 13:20:27)

nobody

The Great

Registered: 2015-08-10

Posts: 3,655

Re: Forum email notifications

Hi folks.

Is there any way I can subscribe to post and not get email notifications? i.e. the user can get notifications in forum itself (as well).

P. S. I subscribed to an off-topic thread, and then my mailbox got loads of notifications. Back to my question.

You mean as private messages (PM)? No. That's not implemented by the forum software.

What you can do however is use Atom feeds for polling certain high-volume threads. Every topic/thread on the forums, as well as every forum section as well as the entire board has an associated feed. In Firefox, press Ctrl+i and navigate to 'Feeds', and insert the URL into your favourite newsreader. Personally, I prefer newsbeuter. For example, for this very thread, the feed URL is

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/extern.php?action=feed&tid=438&type=atom

You can query the entire thread this way. In Mozilla Thunderbird for example, you can subscribe to feeds and treat the news stream almost like email.