Question Automatic Forum default language

I am not 100% sure this is the right place to post this - but I can't figure out where else to post this.

Currently the default language on forum posting notifications makes no sense (and is actually grammatically incorrect):

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You are getting this notification because of you have subscribed into category. Please visit the category to unsubscribe.

Please note that you will not receive any further email notifications for this topic unless you subscribe into it.

Do not answer to this e-mail notification as it is a generated e-mail.

May I suggest updating it to read:

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You are getting this notification because you have subscribed to category. Please visit the category to unsubscribe. Please note that once you unsubscribe you will no longer receive email notifications for this topic unless you subscribe into it.

Do not answer to this e-mail notification as it is a generated e-mail.

Finally, if there could be a hyperlink to facilitate unsubscribing (which is actually now the law in Canada) it would facilitate how people manage their settings.

Tabatha wrote: I am not 100% sure this is the right place to post this - but I can't figure out where else to post this.

This issue certainly relates to how Kunena is deployed but it raises the broader issues as I have re-worded them in the subject of my reply.

Speaking only for myself — I am, after all, only an "ordinary user" of Kunena who does not have a say in how this forum is moderated — I would say this this question deals with website administration and consumer law and possibly belongs in the Miscellaneous, off-topic and general Joomla category as much as it possibly belongs to how this site (and others like it) is managed and, for those reasons, it could also be discussed in the General Feedback category.

By and large, when people join websites, they are "bound" by the terms and conditions of use at those site including the conditions relating to subscribing to news and information that is generated by those site.

I agree with you that the current wording on email notifications is clumsy (and not strictly grammatically correct) and it would be a good idea for the developers to take note of your comments and implement changes in future. The wording on email notifications from Kunena is partly in your hands and there are some topics in this forum that discuss those questions (e.g. Looking for the file to edit Email notifications .

If I could make my own suggestion, I would probably change the wording to read something like:

This email was sent by <name-of-wesbite> because you are subscribed to the topic shown above or you subscribed to the forum category at our website. If you do not wish to receive further emails about the topic or category you have subscribed to, please use the unsubscribe topic/category features on our forum.

Please note that this is an automatically generated email, replies will not be answered.

Tabatha wrote: Finally, if there could be a hyperlink to facilitate unsubscribing (which is actually now the law in Canada) it would facilitate how people manage their settings.

I totally agree with you. The purpose of allowing people to choose what they subscribe to and allowing them to unsubscribe to website features is the first principle of online consumer law. The purpose of the email notification messages should be to make it easier to allow people to unsubscribe to material in which they have no interest.

Ideally, the Kunena product should make this website management task easier. The whole point of the unsubscription feature is to allow people to reduce the volume of unwanted and unnecessary email. It is therefore a little disappointing that the Kunena developers are keen to implement ways to increase the amount of email generated by the product.

If you go to the recent announcement about K 5.0 , you will see that one of ideas on the "to do" list is for an "auto subscription" feature (i.e. a feature that will allow forum owners to force all their users to receive email whether they chose to receive it or they didn't). This particular feature violates not only the consumer law of Canada but the consumer law of dozens of countries world-wide.

I am sure that we could debate the wording of the email notification messages — we'll all have different ideas about what would work better — but, ultimately, it's really a question of personal choice and how best we can help one another.