It would be a great feature to be able to subscribe to a topic but only get an email if the opening post is changed. This happens a lot when ROMS are updated.
With the current system you can only subscribe to a topic and receive email for every post made.
If the feature I suggest would exist it would save a lot of unwanted email. Usually the topic title is changed with any ROM update so by reading the email received from XDA you can already see if your favorite ROM is updated or not.
I think a lot of people would use such a feature if you would publish the existence.
I second this request. This would be very usefull!
My suggestion is this;
Use the subscribe to thread function at the top of the page under "Thread Tools" to unsubscribe yourself from the ROM thread in question.
Then re-subscribe and choose the daily or weekly notification option.
The thread title is displayed in the email you receive so you can keep track of it and you will not receive an email every time someone asks a question that's already been answered 568,000 times.....
Not perfect but its better than nothing.....
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hey admins
i have nice suggest to the forum design
maybe u guys can add bookmark option to forum
and able us to bookmark few topics and see all the new posts at once
without having to look each one by one
thx u guys
edit:
another suggestion
that is to add top topics that recently active in sub-fourm
aka hd2 android /wp7 and else so we could access them fast
I second that.
vBulletin is considered one of the best forum softwares, it should support user bookmarks.
Someone needs to point this thread do the admins, otherwise there is very little chance that an admin will read this in such a huge forum!
+1
Proz00 said:
hey admins
i have nice suggest to the forum design
maybe u guys can add bookmark option to forum
and able us to bookmark few topics and see all the new posts at once
without having to look each one by one
thx u guys
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added suggestion at first post
You can do bookmarks already
Thread subscriptions under "thread tools", and then go to "UserCP".
You can subscribe to forums and threads.
Unless I am missing out something, thread subscription will enable mail notifications. So it is not currently possible to add a thread to the list without receiving mail notifications. This is OK in most cases, but can sometimes be annoying.
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Black Antitoon said:
Unless I am missing out something, thread subscription will enable mail notifications. So it is not currently possible to add a thread to the list without receiving mail notifications. This is OK in most cases, but can sometimes be annoying.
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No, you can disable the email notification either thread by thread (go into the List Subscriptions and select "No email notification" for the threads you want) or for all threads (go into Edit Options and select "No email notification" in Default Thread Subscription Mode).
missparker76 said:
No, you can disable the email notification either thread by thread (go into the List Subscriptions and select "No email notification" for the threads you want) or for all threads (go into Edit Options and select "No email notification" in Default Thread Subscription Mode).
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Good! You are getting a "thanks".
Many people on the forums keep close watch on certain ROM's for their phones here on XDA. It would be awesome if there were a way to subscribe ONLY to the first post of a particular thread so that if it is edited/updated you would be notified through e-mail. I'm not talking about subscribing to a thread because you'd be getting tons of unwanted e-mail and notifications, just the first post of the thread. Many developers edit the first post of a thread with new links when they release a new version of their ROM/APP/THEME.
This would let you know immediately when your favorite ROM has had an update posted.
I know, this is a great idea.
Agreed. There is a problem though. Some cooks have designated upto 5 posts for notes on their roms, not only the first.
That's true. Though it seems a majority update the first page in some manor. If we had this functionality they may make a point of doing so.
I have an idea that I believe is doable within the abilities of VB, but it will take a little bit of work to implement.
Create a sticky LOCKED post in the forum. Allow a subset of users that can modify locked post (or if it is possible, just that SINGLE locked post).
So, the first post in that thread would be a link to all of the various mods. Each time a mod is updated, one of the select people make a post on that locked thread saying:
"Mod XYZ has been updates to version a.b.c... Follow the link in post 1 to get the latest version!"
That way you can subscribe to that thread and you will just be notified when one of the very select, few people post. I realize that this is less than ideal, since you may be notified of ROM updates that you don't use, but this would work within the capabilities of VB.
Milkman00 said:
I have an idea that I believe is doable within the abilities of VB, but it will take a little bit of work to implement.
Create a sticky LOCKED post in the forum. Allow a subset of users that can modify locked post (or if it is possible, just that SINGLE locked post).
So, the first post in that thread would be a link to all of the various mods. Each time a mod is updated, one of the select people make a post on that locked thread saying:
"Mod XYZ has been updates to version a.b.c... Follow the link in post 1 to get the latest version!"
That way you can subscribe to that thread and you will just be notified when one of the very select, few people post. I realize that this is less than ideal, since you may be notified of ROM updates that you don't use, but this would work within the capabilities of VB.
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Users cannot post in closed threads That's the biggest issue there tbh. Does give me an idea I will raise.
pulser_g2 said:
Users cannot post in closed threads That's the biggest issue there tbh. Does give me an idea I will raise.
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Sweet. I hope you can come up with something.
DeeODoubleD said:
Many people on the forums keep close watch on certain ROM's for their phones here on XDA. It would be awesome if there were a way to subscribe ONLY to the first post of a particular thread so that if it is edited/updated you would be notified through e-mail. I'm not talking about subscribing to a thread because you'd be getting tons of unwanted e-mail and notifications, just the first post of the thread. Many developers edit the first post of a thread with new links when they release a new version of their ROM/APP/THEME.
This would let you know immediately when your favorite ROM has had an update posted.
I know, this is a great idea.
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It is unlikely this will be done by xda until the bulletin board system they are using supports it (hence why proper RSS Feed monitoring has not been put in for individual threads).
However...
You can do this using a external page monitor such as http://www.changedetection.com
Simply point it to the post you want to monitor and it'll email you or update an rss feed with an update to alert you to the change.
Ok you need to set it up manually, but it's a solution.
I think it would be a nice feature for my unread subscriptions to appear at the top of the list. As you know, it currently displays threads in order of the last post. I subscribe to a lot of threads and post simultaneously, so there are times when I miss an unread thread, or happen to overlook one because I have an entire page of unread topics.
I think it'd really be helpful to force subscribed threads with new posts (unread) at the top of the subscription list.
Your thoughts?
Simba501 said:
I think it would be a nice feature for my unread subscriptions to appear at the top of the list. As you know, it currently displays threads in order of the last post. I subscribe to a lot of threads and post simultaneously, so there are times when I miss an unread thread, or happen to overlook one because I have an entire page of unread topics.
I think it'd really be helpful to force subscribed threads with new posts (unread) at the top of the subscription list.
Your thoughts?
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That's what it does in your UserCP. Any threads you subscribe to show up there once they get a new post. The thread with the latest unread post gets pushed to the top of the list.
cajunflavoredbob said:
That's what it does in your UserCP. Any threads you subscribe to show up there once they get a new post. The thread with the latest unread post gets pushed to the top of the list.
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Thanks....that completely slipped my mind. Guess I'll start using that.
I would like to be able subscribe to just the first post of a thread and receive an email update when the first post is edited/updated.
So for an example, I could go to a ROM thread and subscribe to the opening post. Then when the Dev comes out with a new version and updates the first post (and often title) I would be sent an email alerting that there is an update.
I suspect that this feature would lighten the load on the server because it would reduce the number of people who hit F5 every 20 seconds when they are expecting an update.
This is similar to this request http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1200001 which I think is also a good idea.
this would be a nice feature
If only it was requested in the stickied thread in this very forum...
(requests) From the Users to the Mods & Admins
YES!!!
I don't know if it's just me, but I frequently end up unsubscribing from threads when I what I really wanted to do was view them.
The layout of various email notifications from different forums are all different, and in my experience most of the time the "visit this thread on the web" is the first link under the response. In the case here the first link completely unsubscribes you from the thread without any confirmation request. I then have to go and resubscribe again.
Most other forums have a confirmation page when unsubscribing - is there a reason there isn't one here?
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I don't know if it's just me, but I frequently end up unsubscribing from threads when I what I really wanted to do was view them.
The layout of various email notifications from different forums are all different, and in my experience most of the time the "visit this thread on the web" is the first link under the response. In the case here the first link completely unsubscribes you from the thread without any confirmation request. I then have to go and resubscribe again.
Most other forums have a confirmation page when unsubscribing - is there a reason there isn't one here?
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We balance ease of unsubscribing with having a confirmation dialog to ensure member wishes to actually unsubscribe. Given that balance we err to the side of unsubscribing right away because we don't want people to mark our emails as spam. It is easy enough to re-subscribe to a topic as well. But I'd be interested in hearing others opinion on this.
Nothing makes me more mad then having to sign in when I want to cancel a subscription. That being said, I usually enjoy the XDA emails I get, but for other sites that I need to sign in to cancel email bombs, but don't know my login information. I get angry.
Keep as is.
I appreciate the perspective, but I don't see either of these points as a barrier.
How does requiring a simple one-click confirmation inside the web page change if the email is viewed as spam? In both cases the email is identical. If someone manually is flagging the email as spam then they obviously aren't active in the first place (anyone who is active wouldn't do that).
Also I didn't say that you had to log in to unsubscribe. A simple one-click confirmation inside the web page is all I'm proposing. Considering how it currently launches the site to complete the unsubscribe this would only add 2 seconds.
Personally I don't see any issues with the current email layout.
The link to the thread is at the top of the email, and the unsubscribe is WAAAAY at the bottom. I have no idea how manage to click the wrong one
Because a lot of other forums have their links all at the bottom, and the first link is usually the one to go to the web version. I'm on a lot of different forums, and I have (unfortunately) developed the habit of just clicking the first link after the response in order to see the response in it's full context.
Oddly enough other forums also have a confirmation for unsubscription.
When there's a 1-line reply it's also not "all the way at the bottom".
How about this then: Instead of a confirmation, how about just a "Did you click this by accident? Click _here_ to resubscribe" after the "You have successfully unsubscribed" message?
That way if you intended to do that then there is no change at all, but if you did it by accident it's easy to undo the action.