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I am a member of a few different forums, and this one seems to be the only one that I can't get notification settings set the way I'd like. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong...

 

Let's say I start or reply to a thread, and I am them automatically subscribed to that thread. I would like to get an email as soon as someone posts a response, but I do not want notification of every single response that occurs before I have a chance to come back to the forum and "catch up" on the thread. All of the other forums that I belong to will send me an email so that I know there is at least one response waiting for me, and there could be more. But, until I return to the thread, and get caught up on the content, I won't get more emails.

 

Right now, I'm getting a pretty high quantity of emails per day simply because I'm getting notified of every single response that's posted. Is there a way to set it like I described?

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I got over 50 notices yesterday and the day before for a topic I had commented on. I figured enough was too much and unsubscribed to the topic. I don't know what went wrong.

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I got over 50 notices yesterday and the day before for a topic I had commented on. I figured enough was too much and unsubscribed to the topic. I don't know what went wrong.

 

This is the sort of thing I mean... When participating in a very active topic, I'm getting overrun with notifications. When following a topic that has very LOW activity, but I am very interested in, changing to a "Daily Digest" would just further delay the notification process. Seems that the forum software here either doesn't have the ability to send ONE notice "right away" for an updated topic and then waiting until I visit the topic before sending more.

 

Maybe it's an Admin controlled setting for "every single new post" versus "only when a post is added since last visit"?

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Hey guys, the setting you are looking for is called 'only when not online'

 

With this setting, you will get a notification ONCE if you have not read the topic. You wont get anymore notifications until you have visited the thread.

 

Give it a try, and let me know if this makes your life better :cheers:

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Hey guys, the setting you are looking for is called 'only when not online'

 

With this setting, you will get a notification ONCE if you have not read the topic. You wont get anymore notifications until you have visited the thread.

 

Give it a try, and let me know if this makes your life better :cheers:

 

Thanks for the pointer... I have changed my default to this setting for new subscriptions, but wonder if there's a way to have all existing subscriptions updated.

 

Also - I don't see a way that I can tell how I'm -currently- subscribed to a particular thread. Is there a way to tell which subscriptions are set to Offline already?

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On the top right of the page -> Click your username -> Click 'Content I Follow'

You will now see a list of topics you are subscribed to, and can edit the settings for each, or select them all and mass change them.

Change the status 'only when not online' to receive only one notification until the next time you read the thread.

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Thanks, Josh. I'll see how it goes.

 

For others reading this: On the "Content I Follow" page, click "Toggle Edit Options" to turn on the multi-select option then click the top-most check box to select ALL threads. Scroll all the way to the bottom and you can choose a new setting for all selected threads.

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Sigh.

 

It doesn't work right. I do NOT sign out of the web site, I just close my active window. There are a number of threads that I'm not getting updates on now because the site still believes that I'm "online". Looks like I'm going to have to go back to one of the other options.

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