Post Response Notification

We've been waiting for this to work since last summer, is it supposed to be working now?
I have a difficult time getting people to understand how to use RSS, and we don't have a auto-topic-response-email system so we're just hanging on and waiting.
Thanks
Tim

this bug should be fixed now. if you're still having issues, please let us know here (that goes for anybody).

-chief

I stiil do not get email responses to posts or PM's. There used to be tick buttons on "edit my Profile", I have just checked & these are no longer here.
Without using the RSS feeds how can I track posts?
Cheers

The lack of responses is due to the mail server still being upgraded from last month. No mail is going out for responses or group mail.

 Do you know when the mail server will be upgraded completely?
Thanks for the update

My forum won't grow due to lack of the email response...

My group also is wondering when the e-mail notifications will be fixed. Also, when this is fixed, will a notification be sent to the admins of all new posts regardless of subject or thread or who started the thread? This is something that I as a owner and admin would would really like to see. My members would also like to have the option to be notified of any new posts to any of the categories on the boards. Also, I would like to be notified when I have a new member that has applied to join my group as anyone that is wanting to join has to be approved by a admin. Is this something that can be done or is something already in the works?

Cobra

Yes, I'd like that, too (what cobra said).

Thanks for all the work you guys do!  

this bug should be fixed now. if you're still having issues, please let us know here (that goes for anybody).

-chief

Nope... not getting the email responses.

hi autumnfire, email notifications on responses to your posts is live.  The notification goes out just once a day if you have any unread posts.

I only get notices when someone leaves a message. Nobody on my forum gets notices from Lefora about new postings. I had to make my own notice for members to subscribe to for daily notices of new postings.

That is what you are talking about?

we'll look into this, there should be a 'Daily Digest' that goes out every morning if there are new unread posts - this goes out to all members (unless they unsubscribed).  We'll get it fixed.

I've not had one of those for a loooong time - I'd actually forgotten that we used to get one.

I do not get them either. That is why I mentioned that it was issue that has not been addressed in my post on Lefora Roadmap. I really think that instant notifications of new posts to a Topic that you have started or one that you have joined by posting or through a selection box is a necessary feature. In fact all Forums I belong to outside the Lefora group feature this. It informs a person, when they are doing other things, that someone has responded to their Topic. So they then go back to the Forum to see what the response was. This means more page views. It keeps members involved.

The daily notification of new posts in the Forum, when it worked, was a pointless thing since it was not specific to a members posting. Email notifications of new posts should act like the PM notifications (which is sporadic in working this year, but that seems to be fixed for the moment).

Please noooooooooooooo!!!  My forum is very active and my inbox would overflow and make it difficult to spot actual PMs from my members if it got all junked up with "notifications" of posts to the board.  I can easily check the board for myself for responses, thank you very much, and I know my members would feel the same way.  However, perhaps something like that could be an option that individual members could choose on a "thread by thread" basis.  There could be an option, a checkmark, at the bottom of a thread to choose to be notified everytime there is a response to that thread.  One could later uncheck it when they no longer wanted to be notified of further responses to that thread.  (I wouldn't use that either, but perhaps it would fill the need for others.)

You do understand that it can be turned off? That is the way it works for other Forums (even Lefora allows Notification turned off in edit profile). Checking the Board as a Admin is rather obvious. Members however are different. I belong to perhaps a dozen Forums that I simply do not look at all the time unless I get a notification something was posted.

Glad your Forum is active. Perhaps it is different for a Technical Help Forum like mine. People that are asking questions as newcomers do not return if they are unaware that a answer has been posted. Sometimes that can take a while so they get discouraged and do not return.

This Topic would be a case in point. I would not have known you had responded to this with the exception of this being a miserable wet day where I am at. So I am looking for something to pass some time and returned to Support. You may not even see my response for days, or ever, if you have no reason to stop by Support again.

Thinking about this it occurs to me that not everyone may be familiar with a post notification system. It can be slightly different from Forum to Forum. Some will notify you that a new post has been made with wording that you only get one notice even if there may be several new posts (if you repost to that Topic it resets the Notification for another notice). It also gives a link to that Topic in the Email with instructions on how to de-select notification if you no longer want it. Also many of the Forums have a Track this Thread type of notification, sorta like a RSS feed but via a email of new posts.

One Forum even gives me the text of the answering post, though not any follow on posts. I am not a fan of this because I would rather people return to the Forum to read the post and see any new Topics. Sometimes it is handy though.

Daily Digests should be going out, we'll look into this and found out why some people are not receiving them.