Question "Automatically" subscribe all members to be notified of any new messages

Hi, thanks for taking the time to answer the question. I see that the question actually was not very precise from my side...

I did not expect Kunena to have anything to do with the registration process. I added this remark because of anti-spam legislation and wanted to express that users need a choice. I am also aware that it would be best to have highly educated and interested users. However, reality is not like that, or maybe I just don't know how to deal with this . "Subscribe to a category" is now implemented in K1.6 and was discussed above, no real question open at the moment related to that.

The core of the question related to the "auto-subscribe" feature that you announced about 2-3 months ago (quoted). I understand "auto" in the way that every user automatically gets a notification (for the categorie(s) specified). This is a feature that I (and as I understand this thread, many others) need, because my forum has a small/medium size and people react much better and quicker to posts when they receive it via email rather than them having to login to the site regularly to check for new posts. That simply is my experience now and forces me to use Fireboard with the known hack for this.

So did I understand this wrong and with "auto-subscribe" you actually mean more "chose to subscribe (to a category)" (and then automatically get the notifications for that cat.)?

And if so, may I request the "auto" feature in terms of "every user gets notification of a (selection of) categorie(s)"? I believe it was described like that in your feature survey but cannot find it at the moment.

BW, Erik

ejw wrote: The core of the question related to the "auto-subscribe" feature that you announced about 2-3 months ago (quoted). I understand "auto" in the way that every user automatically gets a notification (for the categorie(s) specified).

I understand the term auto in the sense that a user doesn't have to do anything ... it just happens. In the context of the question, the term "auto-subscribe" has been defined earlier in this topic to mean just that: users do not have to do anything - they are automatically subscribed to receive e-mails of every message posted to the forum from the moment they register with the site.

I made a dreadful mistake in the message that I wrote a couple of months ago - which no-one else detected. I had not intended to announce that "auto-subscribe" (in the narrow sense that I understand it to mean) was being implemented in K 1.6. My intention was to say that K 1.6 offered an extended range of features to allow users to subscribe themselves to receive notification by e-mail of forum "happenings".

With K 1.5 users could only subscribe to a topic. This was the situation a while ago, before K 1.6 had been made publicly available. K 1.6 allows users to subscribe to topics and to categories of topics ... but there's still nothing "automatic" in the subscription process. Users have to choose for themselves which topics or categories of topics they want to subscribe to.

I hope that clears up any confusion and I'm sorry for the mistake I made in using the word "automatic" when I shouldn't have.

ok, understood, thanks for clarifying

leaves only this question: is the "automatic subscription" in the pipeline as well?

I vote yes

Another thing that I see as a must, is an option to enabled subscribe by default.

I have no intention to neglect your great work. But it is things like these we out our voice to get into the best forum solution atm. for Joomla!

MindTooth wrote: Another thing that I see as a must, is an option to enabled subscribe by default.

This is a configuration option that people can change to suit their own requirements.

In version 1.6 or a future release?