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Re: Subscription feature improvements [message #10525 is a reply to message #10513]

Tue, 03 June 2003 21:14

mal0rd

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Registered: May 2003

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Ok, I understand that you don't want FUD to become a MLM. Traditional MLM's are lacking of user-friendly-ness, so I don't want that either. That is really what I'm after: I want a medium of discussion that's easy for people who don't use computers much to utilize.

I suppose I can live without the ability to post messages via email. That means I don't need some of the extra headers I described or the change in the From header for the notifications.

The convenient feature of mailing lists I want is to have every message sent to the users via email. This is important because I don't except people to regally check the forum and I don't want to require my users to have to, except to post. So here is my new simplified proposal:

Instead of having a little "Subscribe" as a link above the forum, have a little "Subscribe to notifications" link, which would do what "Subscribe" does now, and a larger "Subscribe to messages" link, which would send them all the messages posted to the forum.
Have the "Subscribe to messages" link available even if the user isn't logged in. After clicking on it they would be asked to register/login like when one clicks "new topic" now. This would simplify things so I can say to new users "Go to http://fud.prohost.org/forum/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=1 and click Subscribe to Messages, then follow the directions." That would be simple enough for even novice computer users. Every extra step I need to tell people (like "register first") will result in a few more requests for support I need to answer.
The emails sent to the user when they are "Subscribed to messages" should have enough header information so an email client can correctly thread the message (like References and In-Reply-To) . The subject of the email should also be formatted like a mailing list. Instead of "New reply to testpost2 by testuser" it should be like "[FORUM SHORT NAME] Re: [TOPIC]". It would be nice if it also contained a "Unsubscribe to Messages" link.

I hope this new set of suggestions wouldn't damage FUD's identity as a Forum and not a MLM too much. Smile

But if this is still too much to ask then I could live with just points 1 and 2. I don't really like MLM's too much: that's why I'm trying to use FUD. But I do like everything coming to me in my mailbox with nice headers so I don't have to spend time visiting every forum I belong to. I think MLM and FUD integration is overkill: but adding just these few features would be helpful and shouldn't bother people that don't use them.

Could you please tell me what you think? Remember, I can probably do most of the hacking myself, I just don't want to spend the time if you won't accept the changed.

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		Subscription feature improvements By: mal0rd on Tue, 03 June 2003 01:07
		Re: Subscription feature improvements By: Ilia on Tue, 03 June 2003 13:54
		Re: Subscription feature improvements By: mal0rd on Tue, 03 June 2003 21:14
		Re: Subscription feature improvements By: Ilia on Tue, 03 June 2003 21:50
		Re: Subscription feature improvements By: Anonymous on Tue, 03 June 2003 22:53
		Re: Subscription feature improvements By: Ilia on Wed, 04 June 2003 00:17
		Re: Subscription feature improvements By: mal0rd on Wed, 04 June 2003 01:41
		Re: Subscription feature improvements By: Ilia on Wed, 04 June 2003 13:16
		Re: Subscription feature improvements By: mal0rd on Thu, 19 June 2003 22:08

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