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Bug 357780

Summary:	Subscribing to all topics in a forum
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Alexandra Schladebeck <alexandra.schladebeck>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse-bugs, webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Alexandra Schladebeck

2011-09-15 07:43:44 EDT

It seems that there is a maximum amount of topics (40) that a user can be subscribed to in a forum. If new topic subscriptions are added, older ones are automatically unsubscribed. If you rely on email notifications to be informed of activity in the forum, this can mean that posts get ignored. 

It would be great if a user could be subscribed to as many topics as they require. It would be even better if there were a central setting to be subscribed to all topics that come in - this would save having to remember to hit subscribe when a new topic comes in.

I know that there are filtering options to only see messages from today / unanswered messages etc, but I'd find the idea of email notification as an alternative option incredibly useful.

Comment 1 Eric Rizzo

2011-09-15 08:58:46 EDT

Are you aware that each forum group has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to? I think lots of people use that for monitoring the activity in a forum.
The other alternative is to use NNTP instead of the web interface. Many of us "old-timers" prefer that interface because it's more like email or RSS than the clunky (in my opinion) web interface. NNTP clients are easy to find; I prefer Mozilla Thunderbird on both Windows and Mac.

Comment 2 Alexandra Schladebeck

2011-09-15 09:30:49 EDT

I wasn't, but now I am :)

I've set that up and I'll see how I get along with it. I'll resolve the bug as invalid. Thanks!