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Forum feature request: Notification Emails

Posted June 5th, 2009 by Kareem Shehata

It would be a lot easier to take part in forum discussions if the forums would send email when someone replies to your post, replies to a post you've replied, or a topic you're watching.  Of course, it would also be nice to turn these on or off.

What do you think, is this a feature that could be added to the forums?  Is this a feature you would like to see?

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RSS Feeds

On June 10th, 2009 Kareem Shehata says:

Alternatively, RSS feeds for the forums would also work well.

Just figured out that there

On June 12th, 2009 Kareem Shehata says:

Just figured out that there are RSS feeds for the forums, they're just not advertised.  If you go to any of the forums, an icon will appear in the addressbar for the feed.

There are two things not well handled though:

  1. Comments don't show up in the feed, so you can't tell when someone comments on your topic
  2. You have to add each forum topic separately.  Would be nice to have just one to watch everything.

 

Aggregator

On June 12th, 2009 Steve Chris says:

Yup. There is an RSS feed icon at the bottom of the left column under the heading "Syndicate".

There is an aggregator module for Drupal that, if I am not mistaken, will combine all forum coomments.  I took a brief look at it but it will require some more digging to figure out how best to implement a solution.

Thanks for the feedback.