I have a suggestion. When I create a new topic in a forum, like I’m doing here, I noticed it doesn’t subscribe me to notifications by default. That means I always have to remember to manually click on the subscribe button after I’ve created my post. To me this is counterintuitive and not consistent with how other forums work, where typically it would be assumed you’d want to know about replies to a topic you just created. If I may suggest a small tweak, Subscribe by default, or maybe this could be a setting in individual user profiles, in case others actually like the way it currently operates. To be clear, I wouldn’t want to automatically be subscribed to anything I replied to – just new topics that I myself create. Thank you
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this should be added
This should be added.
We'll Put it on the List!
Thank you for the suggestion, consider this added to the list! There are probably other cool things we could do with email subscriptions as well... If you have ideas, please do feel free to sound off below.
Feedback about emails
I think that the emails with replies contain too much preamble. If a reply is short, it would be nice to be able to read it in the preview the Mail app shows so that I don't need to open it. The emails AppleVis used to generate were better in this regard.
Also, several years ago it was possible to subscribe to receive new posts of different kinds of content on AppleVis. I found that particularly useful with blog posts because I read almost all of them.
Yeah there is a real discovrability problem there
And very good ghost threads that are actually good, important or useful but impossible to discover unless we spend 20 minutes beyond the 14th page if not more. I'll create a thread of my own to give details on what I believe are much needed structural improvements.
Good suggestion
Thanks, this is a good suggestion.
Personally I feel it should be a user setting, as not everyone will want it. That would also allow for the option to be subscribed to posts that you reply to.
Dave