I just upgraded to 7.5.8 - in general the update went seamlessly.

One change I have to make with each upgrade is I go in and turn all the "watch this thread" to automatically be on. That greatly increases return rate, when they get alerts on each response to their post. Facebook and most other systems do this kind of alert.

Can we please have an option in the forum so that this is the default?

Here's what I do:

Code
TO AUTO CHECK WATCH OPTION

/scripts/newpost.inc.php
line 167, add checked (as in text) before ending slash:
<input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"dofav\" name=\"dofav\" value=\"1\" class=\"form-checkbox\" />

/scripts/newreply.inc.php
line 230, add checked (as in text) before ending slash:
<input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"dofav\" name=\"dofav\" value=\"1\" class=\"form-checkbox\" />

/templates/default/quickreply.tpl
add near top:
<input type="hidden" name="dofav" value="1" />

/scripts/adduser.inc.php
around line 672 look for:

$query = "
insert into {$config['TABLE_PREFIX']}USER_PROFILE
(USER_ID,USER_FLOOD_CONTROL_OVERRIDE,USER_REAL_EMAIL,USER_TOTAL_POSTS,USER_TITLE,USER_TOTAL_PM{$regfields})
values
('$Uid','-1','$Email_q',0,'$Title_q',1{$regvalues})
";

change to

		//LISA CHANGE 9/22/2012 TO INITIALIZE TO EMAILING ENTRIES
	$query = "
		insert into {$config['TABLE_PREFIX']}USER_PROFILE
		(USER_ID,USER_FLOOD_CONTROL_OVERRIDE,USER_REAL_EMAIL,USER_TOTAL_POSTS,USER_TITLE,USER_EMAIL_WATCHLISTS,USER_TOTAL_PM{$regfields})
		values
		('$Uid','-1','$Email_q',0,'$Title_q',1,1{$regvalues})
	";
		//END LISA CHANGE

Lisa Shea, owner, BellaOnline.com
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