Question subscribe to Categories

Hi everyone, I have been looking for a forum solution for months now and very surprised I have not found one because my need is very "simple".

in addition to the basic forum features I am looking for a forum that would allow my users to subscribe to a category and get instant emails after every post (or daily capsules of the threads). I would think this would be a very common request as we are using it as an "announcement tool" to announce important issues for the school that I am developing the site for.

Can Kunena do this? on the roadmap? if not, does anyone else know how this can be achieved or another forum?

thank you in advance.

rg

It's possible to do, but not that easy (quite a lot of changed code). We are currently finishing our next releases, so this could be done after that has been done.

If you have not done it yet, go vote this feature:
kunena.uservoice.com/pages/11439-kunena/...-to-forum-categories

Top features will get implemented sooner.

thanks,
Just a thought, I could have a single thread (versus a category or forum) that would be all "announcements" and subscribe everyone to the single thread. is their a way to automatically subscribe all members to a single thread? or if not automatically add them manually through a bulk database command or ??

best,

rg

Should do the trick, though I haven't tested it. Great to see simpleboard/joomlaboard still lives on

Is this going to be added any time soon? I'm getting hammered at work by my boss to get this feature implemented I tried hacking it in myself, yet it was way to buggy.

This feature is not trivial to add so that it works as expected for a large groups of users. Our new design in Kunena 1.6 allows adding features like this pretty easily compared to the current situation.

What are your needs? If it is mandatory subscribe (automatic emails on news category etc) for all users in a small forum, this should be pretty easy to hack into Kunena. Just subscribe every user to the new thread when it gets added in template/default/post.php (see previous message). You may also want to add if () to do it only in that one category.