Suggestion to help subscribers

[Miramonti]

For payed subscribers, it would be helpful to get email alerts (to threads that I've subscribed to) linked via the subscriber server:

Example email:
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jjsole has posted a reply to the thread entitled "Suggestion to help subscriber".

You can view it at: http://[b]subscriber.anandtech.com[/b]/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=63612121 To cancel these subscription updates, go to any thread, and click the Subscribe icon. You will see a list of the threads to which you have subscribed. You can uncheck any or all of them.
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If this change can't be made automatic for subscribers, maybe it could be a user pref. I usually check a new post via the email link, but then surf other topics, and find that I've been surfing on the non-subscription servers.

 

[minendo]

i agreee this would be a nice change, but its not necessary if it isnt an easy fix.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Given that the subscriber forums are relatively new, it would be more than reasonable that such a thing is already in the works

 

[narzy]

here is a quick fix posted by sir fredrick


For those having a forums.anandtech.com vs. subscriber.anandtech.com link issue, here's a nice little workaround.
Find your "hosts" file. In win2k, it's located in x:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\
the name of the file is "hosts" with no extention. Open that up in notepad.
If you are a subscriber, add a new line to the bottom that says:
216.151.100.119 forums.anandtech.com

Now you can even visit the subscription server by going to forums.anandtech.com! And so then if you link to other threads via the copy and paste, everyone will be able to follow your links.

If you are not a subscriber, and have no plans to become one, add a line that looks like this:

216.151.100.125 subscriber.anandtech.com

Then if someone who is a subscriber carelessly posts a link that points to the subscriber forum, you'll still be able to access it without changing the URL.


ya I copy and pasted, sue me!
This is what I did

 

[Miramonti]

Thanks for the tip Narzy. It didn't work for me but I can't reboot until this afternoon and am hoping that will do it.

 

[narzy]

I will create both host files for people its a bit confusing because their are two with the same name of hosts one with an extention and one without, you have to put it in the one without, it also may not work on windows98, I am looking into that right now, I am using windows XP.

 

[Miramonti]

I'm using w2k and have "hosts" and "lmhosts.sam" in the same etc directory.

 

[Entity]

It worked for me...great idea, btw. (No reset needed in w2k). Also, for those of you wanting to get rid of popups, adding x10.com to 127.0.0.1 worked for me as well.

Rob

 

[Jason Clark]

Fix is in for that one, any forum url that subscriber clicks on will be redirected providing the subscriber is logged in.

 

[narzy]

hey cool, thanks Zuni

 

[Miramonti]

excellent, thanks Zuni.

 

[sohcrates]

Thank you a lot!

I just noticed this feature is up and working great!

Man, i'm getting less and less to complain about these days