email notifications
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 by ericwilmoth | Discussion: Forum Issues
where are the settings for getting email notifications of responses to posts? I've looked under all the account settings, and iether i'm blind or they don't exist. What's up?
Reply #2 Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:48 AM
click on your settings - my skins (check) the box to receive e-mail notifications
it works for me - i get regular notifications all the time ... 
I see nothing for posts though ..... 
Reply #3 Wednesday, December 16, 2009 8:19 PM
Hi. AzDude--I'm refering specifically to this forum; I'm not running a skin--the only stuff i'm using from stardock are objectdock and fences.
This seems really odd that there isn't a setting for this; I've joined countless fourms and they all have this feature--and this is a porfessional site! WTF?!?!! So, WebGizmos, you're tellin' me everyone simply has to mannualy check their posts for responses? that's insane!
Reply #4 Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:31 PM
They are developing a new site to resolve all these type issues, should be updated soon I understand. Just be patient. 
Reply #5 Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:34 PM
I don't know about anyone else...but yeah...I don't get any email notifications...used to...but not anymore. 
Reply #6 Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:55 PM
Thanks, Lightstar--looking forward to it.
Reply #8 Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:26 PM
I have never understood why Stardock insists on developing their own forum software when there are plenty of open source solutions available that do everything right out of the box.
Reply #9 Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:58 PM
Two reasons:
1. Most forum software is written in PHP/MySQL whereas we work with .NET and SQL Server. While there are forum packages out there written in .NET, they are generally either bloated due to having features we don't care for, or aren't easily modifiable.
2. Our forums are heavily integrated into various parts of Stardock and Impulse (and will be even more in the future). For example, we utilize a single login system across all of our sites. In the future we will have even more in-operability with various Stardock projects like Impulse, Wincustomize, and Ready To Play. Having a codebase that we developed for the forums will allow us to add features quickly and easily.
Of course, there's also the matter of priorities and time. No code is perfect, and every forum has bugs. It would take as much time to update some other forum package, implement our additions and changes all over again, and then push the update as it would to just change our forum code directly and push an update.
So yes, there are other solutions, and we may take a look at them again sometime to see if they allow us to do what we want, but for the time being we will stick with our solution and do what we can to keep everyone happy
Bara
Reply #10 Friday, March 26, 2010 2:35 PM
Quoting kapeman, reply 8I have never understood why Stardock insists on developing their own forum software when there are plenty of open source solutions available that do everything right out of the box.
Two reasons:
1. Most forum software is written in PHP/MySQL whereas we work with .NET and SQL Server. While there are forum packages out there written in .NET, they are generally either bloated due to having features we don't care for, or aren't easily modifiable.
2. Our forums are heavily integrated into various parts of Stardock and Impulse (and will be even more in the future). For example, we utilize a single login system across all of our sites. In the future we will have even more in-operability with various Stardock projects like Impulse, Wincustomize, and Ready To Play. Having a codebase that we developed for the forums will allow us to add features quickly and easily.
Of course, there's also the matter of priorities and time. No code is perfect, and every forum has bugs. It would take as much time to update some other forum package, implement our additions and changes all over again, and then push the update as it would to just change our forum code directly and push an update.
So yes, there are other solutions, and we may take a look at them again sometime to see if they allow us to do what we want, but for the time being we will stick with our solution and do what we can to keep everyone happy
Bara
Well, consider my question answered!
Thanks for your time and consideration. Seriously.
Reply #11 Saturday, March 27, 2010 2:09 PM
Bara, any chance of a hint on how far down the priority list adding a 'Watched Threads' page is? Is that still at least in the long-range plan?
Reply #12 Monday, March 29, 2010 10:36 AM
It is, but right now my priority is to get some much requested features from Brad implemented as well as to fix some long-standing bugs.
Bara
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Reply #1 Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:11 AM
They haven't worked for a long time now. Don't hold your breath.