1 (edited by Dirk B. 2019-07-08 00:57:03)

Topic: Automatically subscribe to my own new threads - Enhancements

Sol, would it be possible to have the "Subscribe to this topic" checkbox default to checked? It's one less thing to teach new members and one less thing to forget. I suspect the vast majority of people want to be notified when someone responds to their threads. The rest can always uncheck the default.

Thanks
Dirk

Re: Automatically subscribe to my own new threads - Enhancements

I agree with this suggestion 100%. SO many times I've forgotten to check the box and wonder why I'm not getting any responses.

Bill

Re: Automatically subscribe to my own new threads - Enhancements

Hi Dirk. I think I did this right. Maybe.....

Re: Automatically subscribe to my own new threads - Enhancements

Most people do, but i usually remind new members to be sure. Like Bill and I have noted, it's easy to forget and would be a trivial fix.

Re: Automatically subscribe to my own new threads - Enhancements

I agree it would be a trivial fix, but then so would a gazillion other things which taken together wouldn't be so trivial. Let's just say you forget to check that little subscribe thingy and don't get any email notifications, what's gonna happen? You're gonna come to this site anyway and there are all the recent threads with activity, presumably yours if you had a response. But even if yours isn't on the home page, you're probably gonna open the forum anyway and lo and behold there is your thread with a response just waiting for your attention. You open it and more than likely respond and all is good with the world. Did you really lose any time or sleep over it or at least enough to add it to the gazillion other trivial fixes which might have more import? Just thinking out loud, perhaps as Sol might when sorting through all the chaos. Take care. Vern

6 (edited by Dirk B. 2019-04-20 02:29:44)

Re: Automatically subscribe to my own new threads - Enhancements

Vern, in the time it took you to write that, the thing could already be fixed. And things don't get prioritized if we don't mention them.

7 (edited by vern 2019-04-20 12:29:40)

Re: Automatically subscribe to my own new threads - Enhancements

Dirk B. wrote:

Vern, in the time it took you to write that, the thing could already be fixed. And things don't get prioritized if we don't mention them.

Somehow, I doubt it could be fixed in that time -- I type pretty fast -- but using such a comparison, while thinking about it, that little box could also be checked in less time. Take care. Vern
Edited for PS: Just to throw another wrinkle into the mix, how many times do we here folks state they'd rather have the choice to opt out of something rather than automatically being included. Just saying.

8 (edited by Temple Wang 2019-04-20 14:15:20)

Re: Automatically subscribe to my own new threads - Enhancements

vern wrote:
Dirk B. wrote:

Vern, in the time it took you to write that, the thing could already be fixed. And things don't get prioritized if we don't mention them.

Somehow, I doubt it could be fixed in that time -- I type pretty fast -- but using such a comparison, while thinking about it, that little box could also be checked in less time. Take care. Vern

amen ... for the love of pedants, what a waste ...