Tagged post alerts > email?

[websnail]

Just a quick one.

As I'm struggling to find time to visit on a regular basis, I'm finding that email alerts are useful for keeping me in the loop but it seems that, other than subscribed threads and PM/Conversations, I'm not receiving any alerts via email for things like Tagged posts which would be really useful to know about.

Any way to enable this or add it as a feature?

Cheers,

Martin

 

[CakeHole]

Hmm by subscribed threads do you mean the 'watch thread' option? Apart from that and the creation of a thread i do not think the Zenforo software which is used for these forums allows other methods to allow email notifications.

The only other alerts i think you can set are found at http://www.printerknowledge.com/account/alert-preferences when logged in.

The only other way around it is at... http://www.printerknowledge.com/account/preferences where you can set an option to make any thread you comment in as a 'watched' thread. Not ideal but maybe a potential work around.

All that said this is probably an entirely redundant post by me as im guessing going through all your account preferences is the first thing you did.

 

[The Hat]

Try here as @CakeHole suggested..

 

[PeterBJ]

It seems there are several alert settings you can change, but not much you can change about Email notifications. I receive an Email notification if there is a conversation for me, but I don't remember if this is default or a selection I made. I found very little about Email notifications on the personal settings pages.

I agree with websnail that the option to receive an Email notification in case you are tagged in a post would be a nice feature.

 

[The Hat]

I think it does tag you; I had a pain in my butt when this new Forum started first because I was getting mail notifications all day long, so I turned the lot off.

 

[CakeHole]

If you select "Automatically watch threads that you create or when you reply..."
in addition to the
"and receive email notifications of replies" options from
http://www.printerknowledge.com/account/preferences
you will get an email and it will tag/highlight the threads you comment on. Bit of a pain as you get an email for every response though but its a kind of work around.

 

[Nifty]

For those that don't know what "tagging" is, please see here: http://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/forum-feature-spotlight-username-tagging.8533/

I thought there was an automatic email option for posts that you're tagged in. I'll need to dig a bit for this.

 

[CakeHole]

I suppose the only issue is that is kind of dependant on a user using or remembering to use the '@/tagging' option before a username. I initially did not realise there was a auto complete menu option to do that (my fault should had read all the announcements first). For people that have a unique nickname like @websnail it would probably still be easier for him to just use the search function now and again and search his username which would (or rather should/hope) bring up all his recent contributions as well as threads he is mentioned in.

The tagging option is a clever idea though, not sure i want @The Hat poking me every time he has some more poisonous baked goods for me though lol Im still digesting his special cake.