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

MindTooth wrote: In version 1.6 or a future release?

There is a configuration setting . The setting is

• K 1.0 and K 1.5: Kunena Forum » Kunena Configuration » Frontend » User Related » Post-subscription checked by default? = Yes
• K 1.6: Kunena Forum » Configuration » Users » Post-subscription checked by default? = Yes

The purpose of that setting is to, by default, check the checkbox below the message editing area so that when the user presses the Submit button they are then subscribed to the topic they have just posted a message to. In other words, see the screen below:


Please confirm if we are discussing the same "option" to enable "subscribe by default". Thank you.

Yes, we were Thank you for clarifying this. Been staying under a rock lately

We are using Fireboard. I would like to know if, with the new version of Kunena it is possible to automatically send an email to all forum members containing either just any new topic title or the full new topic post. Then allowing the individual forum members to choose whether to subscribe to the thread or not.

At the moment, we are running a forum using Fireboard for our own club website, and Yahoo forum externally. The reason for the Yahoo forum is that this permits members to passively see the activity on the forum but we would prefer to have the one forum on our own site. At the moment, when using the club Fireboard forum, it is necessary to access the club website to see if there are any new topics/threads and then subscribe if they are of interest.

I've read some of the discussion about why Auto subscription is a bad idea and understand the rationale. However, we run an educational site where people are opting in by registering, they are agreeing to automatically receive emails from the forum. We currently use moodle which has these features, but we are leaving moodle behind toward a simpler Joomla solution.

So we'd like to have both auto-subscription by category and digest option by category implemented as soon as possible. We'd be willing to possibly co-sponsor the job to get it into 1.7 if possible.

is the development team interested in discussing the idea?

If not do you have a sense of how far down the road such features would be implemented?

thanks.

Is there a way for an administrator to subscribe users to a category or sub-category? It would be very helpful to do this for my club website - when a user signs up for an event, the admin would subscribe them to the forum category associated with that event. When the event organizer submits a post to the category, then all the right people would get an email notification.

No.