Thomas Varghese Thomas Varghese Thomas Varghese

I am making a subscribe to topic button. Already started.

Now, I would like your input on a couple of issues.

1. I was thinking of changing the default behavior of "Email Notification : monitor" to only send emails to the topics that that monitor is subscribed too. This setting would in effect force a monitor to recieve emails for there topic. Admin would stay the same, forcing an admin to listen to all communications. It would also serve the function of making sure they get emails even when the board structure changes.

Now that anyone can subscribe to any board, it changes how it might work.

Thoughts? Any comments?

Dr Sassafras,

 I'm new to this forum and, therefore, wish to apologize if I've missed a few threads along the way.

 I been running a Joomla site in test mode for awhile and have both the CCBoard and Kuena boards
configured. So, as we're getting ready to go live, I knew I needed to select one or the other.

That got me looking closely at the UI and the first thing I noticed was that on the CCBoard
"post a message form" there was no checkbox (at the bottom) where the user would indicate
that he wanted to be notified when replies were posted. On the similar form in Kuena,the
feature was more prominently displayed.

So, assuming that CCBoard was equally as sophisticated as Kuena, I went to your forums and
found a few postings from you and Thomas. In short order I learned that the "subscribe to"
feature is intended to provide the function I expected to see.

 Now, I can't say that I understood all the nuances of what you and Thomas were going on
about (in terms of email notifications to topics and forums) but I did notice that some of
the postings were pretty dated. So, my expectation is that whatever "deficiencies" they
were referring to, have been corrected by now.

My first piece of 'feedback' is that UI questions are about the "user's expectations", not
the developer's. If users have more chances of experiencing VBulletin's or PHPBB's interface,
and those applications use a checkbox AND an explanation at the bottom of the form, users
are more likely to know what these features are intended to do.

 For me, now that I've found out that the "subscribe" radio button performs the function,
I will know what to do with it next time I make a posting. But, I can see where the approach
implemented by Kuena (to provide explanatory text next to the feature) only helps the users
to know what to do.

 My second piece of 'feedback' is that, and this is subjective, I think that a Subscribe to (or
contact me by email) checkbox at the bottom of the form is more typical of my user's experiences
and would probably opt for that format most of the time. I noticed that on this copy of ccBoard
there was a Subscribe button at the top and it confused me as I had not yet made a posting.

I hope this feedback can give you some additional insight. For me, I've decided that CcBoard is
the way to go (instead of Kuena) and will be looking to deploy it in the live site.

If you wish to correct my conclusions, or offer some further explanations, feel free to.

Thank you

Mike
Atlantic Webs

There is a "subscribe" radio button. It displays the the reply page. Using "quick reply" will not show this, along with most other reply interface stuff.

Feel free to shoot off as many questions as you like.

I've been using ccBoard on my site for nearly a year now.  It's worked flawlessly and everyone's involvement with the project should be commended!  Kudoz!

I have a question in relation to this topic.  Currently a user has to choose each post to subscribe to, which then gets sent to email to the registered user. Would it be possible to add something that allows a user to subscribe to the "latest posts", being sent one email daily?

Thank you all again for your efforts!

PB