Notifications Setting

[Akuyi]

Is there a setting where we can select which notifications to receive?

For example, I love being notified about announcements and being mentioned or quoted, but would rather not see notifications about subscribed thread updates.

[Diana]

At the moment, no there isn't a way to turn on or off notifications.
If you don't want to be notified of a thread you are subscribed to, you could always unsubscribe from it.

[Akuyi]

Is it planned for the future?

[Diana]

I plan to add the ability to silence some notification types, but I didn't have any intention to do it for subscriptions. If you unsubscribe from all threads, it's essentially turns off the notification, since there is nothing left to notify you of.

[Akuyi]

Well, since you are subscribed to a thread simply by posting in it, your proposal would mean a lot of work, because I'd have to unsubscribe from every thread after every single post.

I check my subscribed thread page regularly anyway, so the notifications for it are sort of redundant for me. And I don't see why other notifications should be adjustable, but subscription notifications not.

[MonkeyGirl18]

you're subbed automatically to threads you make.

you have to manually sub to threads you comment in. It doesn't sub you to it just because you commented on it.

[Akuyi]

No, it does. I'm always automatically subscribed to threads I post in.

I've unsubscribed from the "How many feathers do you have" thread at least 6 times already. And I'm always subscribed to the threads of Newbies for greeting them, too.

I'm not saying I hate being automatically subscribed. I like this feature cause it helps me keeping track of conversations and keeping a tab on threads I might wanna visit again later. I just don't wanna be notified about all of them.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

so far I am only notified if one of the threads I started gets a response or if someone quoted me. I have to go to unread threads to view any of the other threads I like to write in. Am I missing something to get onto the notification for threads I generally chat in? Can we do that?

[Akuyi]

I wonder why this is happening for me and not for you. Do we have a forum setting for this? .-.

[Diana]

There is a setting!
Under your posting settings, you can set "Notify me upon replies by default" to "no". This will apply to the quick-reply and full-editor defaults, but you can always use the checkbox under the text box in the full editor to change the setting when you post.

[Akuyi]

Wait, is this for notifications or for auto-subscription? Or are they the same?

[Diana]

I didn't decide that it was phpbb lol. I think because it's under 'posting settings' it is supposed to mean that you will be notified on replies to places you post.

I still don't see why we need a separate toggle for subscription notifications. If you don't want to be notified of anything, just don't subscribe to any threads.

[Akuyi]

Well, we only have one way of tabbing threads for quick access and that's by subscription. I just want to be able to view my favorite topics in a simple list (the subscription page does this for me) without being notified about updates in threads I currently don't care about but that I don't wanna forget about.

Does this make sense?

Is that what the option actually does?

Or could you just kindly treat this as a feature request even if you can't understand why I want this?

[Diana]

hrm. I think I get it. You want to use the subscriptions as a bookmarking feature?

If I can understand how you want to use the site, I can help point you to an existing feature or better implement a new one!
I added a detail about subscription toggling to my list.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Aha, so much power of choice I didn't realize I had ~! I'm going to try it out, thank you for the reminder!