Forum feature: "Always notify me of replies"

NeWsOfTzzz · Post by **NeWsOfTzzz** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:50 pm

Always notify me of replies:
Sends an e-mail when someone replies to a topic you have posted in. This can be changed whenever you post.

This option doesn't work in this forum, even though the email registered to the account is correct. It's a very important feature for message boards, which speeds up discussions a lot.

PS: I posted here because there is no real good position for stuff related to technical problems of this forum.

PPS: Same goes probably for "Notify on new Private Message:", which is even more important.

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shadowslair · Post by **shadowslair** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:17 pm

If I`m not mistaken, this is known for a long time. Currently the only way around this is checking your PM-s regularly and the topics you posted. Indeed useful, but fortunately not the end of the world.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:37 pm

This feature is not supported by the SourceForge hosting. Sorry.

B@z · Post by **B@z** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:37 pm

yeah the site doesnt send email at all (even when press the forgot password! thats the problem

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maybe its because of the provider

NeWsOfTzzz · Post by **NeWsOfTzzz** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:17 am

Okay, they've disabled sendMail(), I've also done this on my server (you could send Emails in the name of SourceForge for example, which is not even detectable with SPF records then).

BUT, and that's also the way my customers in web hosting go:

Use SMTP! For example phpBB is offering SMTP functionality:
http://www.webhost4life.com/hostingKB/K ... 50180.aspx

You only need one SMTP-able email account, but that's no problem. EVERY email account you can use in email clients like Outlook or Thunderbird ARE actually SMTP-able. You're also from Germany, you could for example use something like "gmx.de" and make an address like "irrlicht@gmx.de". Still better would be an own mailserver but I don't know if Irrlicht has one?

PS: This is not much work (maybe 5-10 minutes including the creating of a free email account) but you should REALLY do it, it's ESSENTIAL for every good forum (Discussions which take 4 days now could be handled in 3 hours with email notifications...)

Kind Regards, René

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hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:49 am

The only times I use notification is when I post in forums that I don't visit more often than once a week. But as you might imagine, those users are not the ones that define the requirements. The other thing, i.e. faster discussions, is not a major point for us - we have that time

NeWsOfTzzz · Post by **NeWsOfTzzz** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:44 am

hybrid wrote:The other thing, i.e. faster discussions, is not a major point for us - we have that time

You have the time but for example people who need help can get the help much faster and maybe answer more required questions while the answer givers can then react much faster.

Overall the Irrlicht project would greatly benefit of email notifications (Users get faster answers, the forum just has much higher activity etc.)

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hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:08 pm

Those people will have to check for help on a regular basis anyway, as they're obviously stuck somewhere and cannot proceeed. And people who can help won't get noticed because they don't want to be noticed about every new post... So no, this has worked for 6 years now, and it will work for the next years as well

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:29 pm

hybrid, I also agree with NeWsOfTzzz about having this feature.
The thing I don't understand is that if it takes so little time, why not?

freetimecoder · Post by **freetimecoder** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:57 pm

I would appreciate it. I like being notified. And for people that do not want to be notified, they can turn it off in every post or by using "Stop watching this topic". On the other hand, users that want to use this feature cannot turn it on.

But I must admit, because i have to check for new posts I discover other new threads and might be able to help there as well.

greetings

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:14 pm

As hybrid said: It worked for 6 years.

NeWsOfTzzz · Post by **NeWsOfTzzz** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:29 pm

Sylence wrote:As hybrid said: It worked for 6 years.

Let's hunt mammoths and live in caves, it worked for 60,000 years and that is MUCH better than 6 years.

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NeWsOfTzzz · Post by **NeWsOfTzzz** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:32 pm

freetimecoder wrote:But I must admit, because i have to check for new posts I discover other new threads and might be able to help there as well.

That's also no problem (although I didn't see the link for it in this forum yet), but usually you can even subscribe to a whole area, so that you get an emails whenever a new thread is created, so you cam help those in need even faster.

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CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:36 pm

*sigh* that's the 5-10 minutes stuff which costs you half an hour just to find out what it's all about. I think we have no mailserver for Irrlicht so that's not an option.

Abusing another mailaccount as smtp-server might actually really work. At least unless it's not against the guidelines of the mailproviders (and we have to check such stuff first). So could be a good idea.

At least unless there's something speaking against this (like making it easier for anyone to spam users).

P.S. - what's wrong with mammoth hunting?

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:40 pm

NeWsOfTzzz wrote:
Sylence wrote:As hybrid said: It worked for 6 years.
Let's hunt mammoths and live in caves, it worked for 60,000 years and that is MUCH better than 6 years.
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It wasn't our fault that they died out