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Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2010/11/04 15:40

Good news IQ Users !

You can now subscribe to new posts and comments. To enable this,

goto your My Account page
A new tab is added: My notifications settings
Specify your settings and click Save Settings

I've set this on a 15 minutes timer

You'll receive an email looking something like this:

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Greetings Pierre_Admin,

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1 new comment attached to Forums posted by reesd: forum slow
1. Re: forum slow by Pierre_Admin
http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/1964#comment-8953
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Now... the system is not super smart and will send emails for posts you've written yourself and posts you've read

. It would also be nice if you could receive new comments emails only for threads you've read, or those you've commented on... but it's a start !

Enjoy !

Comments

Hi Pierre, I don't have/see these "notifications settings". Maybe you haven't enabled it for all groups or something?

So true. Access was not set for users. Try it now !

Ah! Ok, now I see it. :-)

Unfortunately it seems to be notifying for all updates, not just the ones we have bookmarked and/or favorited.

[quote=reesd]

Unfortunately it seems to be notifying for all updates, not just the ones we have bookmarked and/or favorited.

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As I said above, this unfortunately doesn't have any real value since it sends all updates.

I have a workaround I have started using that works well for me that I thought I would share. I have installed the Update Scanner Firefox extension and just watch thread/page I care about. This is working well, it gives me a cached version so I don't have to deal with the slowness of the forum and even highlights the changes.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/update-scanner/

Another tip is I changed my Comment viewing options (at bottom of page) to list comments "Date - newest first" so the changes are on top.

PS, I have nothing to do with this extension, but wanted to share because I think better/faster participation on the forum will really help IQ.

Thanks for the tip ! :)

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/update-scanner/

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Good idea -

note that it only works with Firefox 4 (at that link, anyways)

(I hadnt realised that was so close to release...)

[quote=Tom]

Good idea -

note that it only works with Firefox 4 (at that link, anyways)

(I hadn't realised that was so close to release...)

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It actually works fine with 3.6.*, you just have to override compatability as described here - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkCompatibility. I don't know why he hasn't updated his manifest.

SiteDelta (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sitedelta/) has a good following also and is officially compatible with 3.6.*. It seems more powerful, but more complicated. I haven't tried it yet, but may to see if I can get it to properly watch the Drupal track page. Update Scanner doesn't work because it see changes in the "last changed column" as changes. SiteDelta will in theory allow me to tell it to ignore last changed column.

What page from the IQ site are you tracking ? The "What's New" section ?

[quote=Armando]What page from the IQ site are you tracking ? The "What's New" section ?[/quote]

I actually have to track each thread individually.

I would like to track one of the track pages (http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=user/63/xtrack for me), but the last post column unfortunately shows time since last post rather than exact time of last post - so it's always changing. That what I thought SiteDelta might help with (it seems to allow filtering what you are watching on the page), but I haven't tried it yet.

Thanks for the precisions !

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