19-06-2003 16:01									#1
	Is it possible to receive updated to a =Forum= ? Get a bigger avatar today!

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.

	19-06-2003 16:20									#2
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I think you have to activate E-mail notification.

	19-06-2003 16:32									#3
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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...

	19-06-2003 19:17									#4
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I don't think there is such a feature.

	19-06-2003 19:29									#5
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

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.

	19-06-2003 20:40									#6
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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.

	19-06-2003 21:39									#7
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Yeah, what the wombat said.

	20-06-2003 01:50									#8
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Sure, I could, but I'm just a lazy Monster...

	20-06-2003 04:33									#9
	Support Apolyton

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

	20-06-2003 09:59									#10
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Or you could just reply in everything and use My Threads.

	20-06-2003 11:05									#11
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That's a good suggestion ixnay...

	20-06-2003 12:38									#12
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

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?

	20-06-2003 12:44									#13
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Such a feature would overload the server as it would soon have to send out dozens if not hundreds of emails per second.

	20-06-2003 12:53									#14
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Ah - that's a good point, Locutus.

	20-06-2003 14:45									#15
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I get enough email from thread reply notifications.

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

	20-06-2003 14:51									#16
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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.

	20-06-2003 17:03									#17
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

quote: 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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quote: 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