Email subscription
Add the ability to subscribe to a topic and have it send you an email when it updates. Responding to a topic should automatically subscribe you but you shouldn’t have to respond to subscribe.
I think this needs some careful design, I do not want to flood people with emails.
Can you rough up how you would see this working?
Is it default on, or off?
Do we send changes in batches or one email per response?
Is there a limit of daily emails you can get?
neil can you post a separate item on this, I would like to nut out how rss would work and where / what you would subscribe to.
I just noticed there are some new checkbox options in the UCP on the Settings tab. Should these be working already? If so, then they don’t :)
If not, I suggest that they are al unchecked at the time of implementation. Else I myself and others are probably going to get flooded with email…
Also, like suggested on the design tab, I would prefer a way to set an alternate email address for these notifications. They should not go to my associated openid email account.
I would also change the text labels a bit:
I don’t want to get ahead of anything if this isn’t finished yet, but it might be neccessary that this gets split up per section so you can configure settings for each type. For example email me about new topics in feature requests, but do not email me for new topics in the support section.
Ok Ill look at fixing the wording, its going to be a while more till the email stuff is implemented but I will make sure I do not spam like mad.
The email subscription needs to be seperated from the notify option. In it’s current form I cannot use it because it will indeed flood me.
I want notifications in my CT inbox for all topics that have the checkmark.
I only want email notifications to a configurable email address for topics I specifically mark.
In the topic view it should look something like this:
[chekbox] notification in inbox | [checkbox] notification to email | bookmark topic
Actually, I think the checkboxes can be confusing to users. Where do you click save? You don’t have to, but that is unusual for a website.
The implementation of phpbb actually has a hyperlink for “subscribe to topic” which changes to “unsubscribe from topic” if it’s active for that topic.
In the UCP of phpbb you get an overview of all topics that you subscribed to. There you can also uncheck multiple ones at the same to unsubscribe from them.
This puppy is done for now, tweaks and fixed should go in new tickets.
back to the drawing board, the implementation was way too noisy, I have been having to delete dozens of emails a day, its not on.
like I said… Seperate notifications from email subscriptions :)
It would resolve the whole thing. Notifications in inbox are ideal to see anything that happens on any topic you posted on, but only if you visit the site.
Email notifications are only intended for topics that you really really really want to follow and get notitified about asap. you simple opt in and subscribe for that particular topic. You will then receive email notifications based on the configured settings in the UCP.
What if the email notification just went out to tell you that you had something in your inbox…? Then you'd just get one until you came back.
What if the email notification just went out to tell you that you had something in your inbox…? Then you'd just get one until you came back.
Getting close, but it would have to have a 24 hour delay (ever since you were online). I do not want to punish active members with a task of deleting 7 emails a day.
How ‘bout an rss feed on my inbox…?
Okay, this is probably going to blow your mind, but here goes…
Would be really cool if I could setup a notification of the creation of any topic that contained “xyz” in the title…
That way, if people are posting questions or bugs on my plug-ins they would be less likely to fall through the cracks.
