Subscribing to a forum? And a suggestion

[wenglish98027]

I must be blind How do I subscribe to a whole forum?

And a suggestion - every forum page has the same title - "muvipix.com :: Forum". It would be helpful if the title reflected the forum name or the topic title. Try having 5 tabs open in the browser and you'll see what I mean

Thanks for a great forum. I'm hoping I can get it set up so I get email notification of all new topics (hence the request above), but then only get notification of replies to topics I subscribe to. The downside of the Adobe forum is that that doesn't seem to be possible - you continue to get replies in the digest, and there's way too much traffic for me to keep up with.

Thanks ... Mike
Edit: fix spelling in the title

[Ron]

I must be blind How do I subscribe to a whole forum?

You can't specifically subscribe to a forum and receive email notifications per every post (can you imagine what kind of server load that would be when we reach say, 5000 users?). But check out the "Digest Settings" at the top menu - you can receive a Daily Digest of the forum of choice.

And a suggestion - every forum page has the same title - "muvipix.com :: Forum". It would be helpful if the title reflected the forum name or the topic title. Try having 5 tabs open in the browser and you'll see what I mean

This is by forum design. I don't know if I can change that or not, but I will look into it. It's not a typical web structure per-se. It's one web page dynamically created per click; hard to explain.

Thanks for a great forum. I'm hoping I can get it set up so I get email notification of all new topics (hence the request above), but then only get notification of replies to topics I subscribe to. The downside of the Adobe forum is that that doesn't seem to be possible - you continue to get replies in the digest, and there's way too much traffic for me to keep up with.

You can receive emails from topics that you subscribe to (again, for new look at Digest Settings). Make sure you have this set in your profile. You can also set it per posting.

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Mike,
The Forum name does appear at the top of the page
Something like this

Subscribing to a forum? And a suggestion
muvipix Forum Index -> muvipix.com Suggestions

And be sure to check out the Digest Settings, you can get notified daily of any new topics.

When you create a new topic or respond, as I am doing now, you have the option to 'Notify me when a reply is posted', this is just under where you type, just below 'Disable Smilies in this post'.

Be sure to check out your Profile also, there are some setting there regarding various forum functions also.

[Jayell]

I must be blind How do I subscribe to a whole forum?

In other topics, I think we've decided the best way to 'subscribe to the whole forum' is to take it as an RSS feed. Unfortunately, it only feeds 10 messages at a time, so it's necessary to download them pretty regularly to get everything .. but then I think we can nudge Ron into allowing more at a time if folks are using this method.

[wenglish98027]

Thanks all.

Ron - I tried the digest settings - it's set for daily/HTML/yes/yes/midnight/150 lines/All subscribed forums (and all the furms under that are selected too). But I'm not getting any digests. I am able to get emails from individual topics that I subscribe to, or reply to.

Chuck - I'm referring to the title bar of the browser, not the top of the page. The contents of the title bar is also displayed on each tab. No big deal, it just would make it easier to navigate from (say) the tab showing the HD discussion to the tab showing the water cooler discussion.

Jayell - unfortunately I don't have time to do RSS feeds (same reason I don't come in and read all the posts). This is why a digest is invaluable - I can read it at my leisure, subscribe to the wheat, and I'll never see the replies to the chaff (so to speak).

BTW there are forums out there which send the text of every new post (aximsite, sbsh.net, pocketinformant.com are some examples). They don't send any replies unless you subscribe to the topic, which makes it easy to meter how much information you get.

Anyway, not a huge deal if phpBB doesn't support it.

Mike

[wenglish98027]

BTW for the title here's the HTML tag:

<title>muvipix.com :: Forum</title>

[Ron]

Can anyone else verify that digests don't work?

I've been receiving a daily digest since November I just assumed it worked perfectly.

The only other thing I can think of is maybe a spam filter is eating it?

[Chuck Engels]

I get mine every night

[Ron]

Anyway, not a huge deal if phpBB doesn't support it.

Mike, I could easily modify the forum to allow what you're suggesting, but I'm trying to stay away from too many modifications for many reasons. One being, too many mods means - easier for things to "break". Also makes upgrading the software so much easier. If you look around, we try to incorporate as much user-friendlyness (word?) as we possibly can. We're not going to please everybody all the time, we know this.

The title bar tag is not so easy. It's generated by script, not just a title tag ( I wish it were that easy! )

And yes, some Bulletin Board systems do offer different features, some you need to pay for, others just didn't have other features we needed. I could go on and on, but hopefully ... you know what I mean.

Please let me know if you still have problems with the Digest after checking your spam filters or possibly (testing for us) another email address? I want it to work for all.

[Clayton]

I'm reading from my digest right now.

Clayton

[Ron]

Unfortunately, it only feeds 10 messages at a time, so it's necessary to download them pretty regularly to get everything .. but then I think we can nudge Ron into allowing more at a time if folks are using this method.

Here ya' go

RSS - 25 latest topics

If you want 100, let me know

[Jayell]

Thanks, Ron!! I think 25 will be great! I know I get 10 from time-to-time, so figure I'm probably missing a couple now and then.

[wenglish98027]

Anyway, not a huge deal if phpBB doesn't support it.

Mike, I could easily modify the forum to allow what you're suggesting, but I'm trying to stay away from too many modifications for many reasons. One being, too many mods means - easier for things to "break". Also makes upgrading the software so much easier. If you look around, we try to incorporate as much user-friendlyness (word?) as we possibly can. We're not going to please everybody all the time, we know this.

The title bar tag is not so easy. It's generated by script, not just a title tag ( I wish it were that easy! )

And yes, some Bulletin Board systems do offer different features, some you need to pay for, others just didn't have other features we needed. I could go on and on, but hopefully ... you know what I mean.

Please let me know if you still have problems with the Digest after checking your spam filters or possibly (testing for us) another email address? I want it to work for all.

I understand not wanting to make too many changes, and it's not a big deal.

Regarding the digest, I am successfully getting emails for replies to topics I'm subscribed to, and I always check y junk mail folder for non-junk, so I don't think it's getting filtered out.

To confirm - there's nothing I need to click on at the top of a given forum page to turn this on? I simply check the checkboxes on the Digest Settings page?

In case a toggle just got stuck in the wrong state, I unchecked then re-checked the box next to "all subscribed forums". We'll see if that does it.

Mike

[Chuck Engels]

Here is how mine is set up

[wenglish98027]

Here is how mine is set up

Thanks Chuck. The only difference is that mine is set for midnight and 150 characters per message. I'll try 11pm and 600.

Mike