Immediate Subscription Notification

I just made my first subscription today so I may be off base in suggesting this and maybe it has been brought up before, but I think it would awesome if we could have an option to have a message box pop up every time there is a new post in a thread we are subscribed to. It would act the same as PMs and it could even give you the option to open it in a new window.

I guess this might make a bigger load on the server, but I can't see how it could be worse than the current set up for PM notification and sending an email every time a thread gets a new post.

It would be terrible for us high volume posters like me and dglienna. I would get ~ 100 popups a day + PMs. :eek:

Probably the easiest thing to do is just check your Control Panel or Subscriptions page. ;)

Well thats easy to solve. Make it optional. You could add a checkbox on the "Add subscription" page to say if you want a popup (instead of email) if you are online.

Just keep another pane open. Oops. You can't use Fx, with it's tabbed browsing. I always have my UserCP open. I get a popup for PM's, so I just alt-tab and read them.

Haven't you been subscribing to threads? How do you know when they have been updated anyway then?

I just get instant notification through MSN. My VBF account is setup with my Hotmail address.

No, I just started subscribing (to the LightFusion thread) because I would normally just surf all the forums I post in and see whats new.

You do know you can just click the New Posts link in between the Calendar and Search links? It shows all the new posts in all forums on one page. ;)

Yes I did. Thanks though RD.

PS - Congrats on being sssssssssuper! ;) <--- that was NOT a gay wink! :D

:lol:

Thanks EM. :thumb:

Marty, can you let us know if this is a possiblity?

Can't you get email notifications? I don't think they will hack the software. You know their stance on doing things that have to be updated manually.

Yeah. I guess its not all the great of a feature because I just turned on the option to have myself auto-subscribed to any thread I post in and that makes me go to the CP all the time any way so I don't need an alert so much any more.

Sorry, but dglienna is right?

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Originally Posted by MartinLiss

Sorry, but dglienna is right?

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Was that meant to be a question? I don't get it.

I know you don't like hacking the software so I guess this isn't an option unless the vBulletin people decide to change it.

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Originally Posted by eyeRmonkey

Was that meant to be a question? I don't get it.

I know you don't like hacking the software so I guess this isn't an option unless the vBulletin people decide to change it.

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I should have said "Sorry, but dglienna is right". And you are correct about the rest.