Subscription Changes

[Gamingphreek]

Nice job :thumbsup:

Inbox doesn't need emptying everyday now

-Kevin

 

[Jason Clark]

Eagle the way it works is quite simple. Once you are sent a subscription it marks your subscription to that thread as "sent". You will not got anything else until you go to the thread LOGGED IN, then it will reset the subscription to un-sent.

 

[dornick]

I can live with the new system. I just switched my subscriptions to PMs and visit each thread. It forces an actual visit to AT each time I want to see if there are replies, but oh well.

 

[Winchester]

Did I mention this sucks horribly.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Winchester
Did I mention this works a hell of a lot better?

Fixed. I don't want to get hundreds of PMs that I have to delete every few days.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: Winchester
Did I mention this sucks horribly.

:thumbsup:

 

[Winchester]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: Winchester
Did I mention this works a hell of a lot better?

Fixed. I am an idiot in that I dont know how to switch to them to email and setup rules.

Fixed

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Winchester

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: Winchester
Did I mention this works a hell of a lot better?

Fixed. I am an idiot in that I dont know how to switch to them to email and setup rules.

Fixed

I still don't want to receive hundreds of emails each day, WTF is your problem?

[Edit] Ah, I see you're from Texas. Nevermind.

 

[Winchester]

Then dont subscribe to lots of threads.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Winchester
Then dont subscribe to lots of threads.

Agreed. I like the old system better because I used to track my subscribed threads through my mail client. But I can learn to adapt if it's never going back to the better way

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Jason Clark

Originally posted by: STaSh
Is is possible to have the link in the notification send you to the actual post, or at least the correct page? If there is a multiple page thread, the email link sends you to the first page. Is this a limitation of FuseTalk?

Thanks for your work, the emails do look nicer.

That really has nothing to do with fusetalk and everything to do with not knowing how many pages you have set per thread based on the email or not being logged in. The only way that would ever work properly in both scenarios is if it took you to the single post. Something for later, as we're pretty pegged with other work now. The e-mail has the full message text in it...

In the future you can make a small adjustment to how the forum renders threads. Although we wouldn't see it, each post would be headed by a bookmark tag. Then the link would look like:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...catid=38&threadid=1556232&forumid=1#12

And based on the user's preferences, they would jump to that post. Your back-end would first parse the #12 and check which page it's on, then redirect to that page including the #12 to hop to the post.

Actually, since email links would never be crawled by a search engine spider, you could make this even simpler. Use a portal page to streamline the process. So in the emails, the link back to the above example would be:

http://forums.anandtech.com/subscriptio...=38&threadid=1556232&forumid=1&post=12

That would redirect to the proper page and hop to the post bookmark.


And as a suggestion to those who want to continue receiving every email notification - you could add that back as a selectable option, but then add an advertisement at the top or bottom of each email. Since they're using more of your server resources and following the thread without ever revisiting the site (and reducing your ad impressions), then that should be a fair trade off.

I like this idea best! I wouldn't mind if it put an add at the top or bottom of each subscription notice. I really miss the old system.

 

[Winchester]

This still sucks horribly. I am now not getting new emails even when I re-visit the page.

Turn the switch off. I want all replies to threads in my email. At least make it a choice matter.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Cerb

Originally posted by: Jason Clark

Originally posted by: STaSh
Is is possible to have the link in the notification send you to the actual post, or at least the correct page? If there is a multiple page thread, the email link sends you to the first page. Is this a limitation of FuseTalk?

Thanks for your work, the emails do look nicer.

That really has nothing to do with fusetalk and everything to do with not knowing how many pages you have set per thread based on the email or not being logged in. The only way that would ever work properly in both scenarios is if it took you to the single post. Something for later, as we're pretty pegged with other work now. The e-mail has the full message text in it...

Not to be much of a whiner, but other forums do this quite well, where clicking on the link brings you to that post in the thread.

This is something that has bothered me for a while too.