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Hi all. Been a VERY long time user of UBBThreads but very little involved here on the forums - ironic? Probably....

Anyway, our boards have grown quieter over the last 18 months, and I was thinking why... A feature I see on other boards is that users are emailed when their posts are answered. I think this would be a big benefit to our board's user base, as people now very often join, post, but then never return!

I've set things so that as admin I get emailed on forum activity, but can users also be emailed when their topics are replied to? Am I missing something? If it's available, how do I make it a default behaviour? Cheers. smile

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Irony? No. Irony

Have you checked out the Watch Lists feature?

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Thanks for the reply DLW. smile

I've looked at the Watch Lists feature, and this is how I understand it: it's a user option that is turned off by default, but even if users activate the option they aren't necessarily emailed responses to their Watched items, but must activate that additionally. I may have this wrong?

What I'd prefer is a means for an opt-out system of emailing responses to forum posts - if this doesn't exist in UBBThreads then I'll post it as a feature request.

Ironically, I'm a drummer. wink

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Thinking about this a bit more, I believe this is what I'm after:

When a user makes a post then the post is by default added to their "Watched List" and by default set for email notification.

Pre-checked boxes with FULL REPLY would enable the user to disable these defaults. Any thoughts, or shall I raise this in the feature request forum?

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Not looking at the template.
You could edit it as a modification and have the "Add this topic to my Watched Topics" field selected as a default. When a user posts a topic.


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