Subscribing to a Forum
 

has anyone got a hack to implement email notification whenever a post is posted in a forum by 'Subscribing to a Forum' like you would subscribing to a thread ?

There are a few workarounds suggested using email distribution lists etc... but these are messy.

thanks,

matteox

Although a few lines of code will do the trick, it's not a good idea to hack vb for this and this is why it hasnt been done yet:

Forum subscribers can get crowded in time and can reach to numbers so high that it would take so long to send a notification message to all. This would cause "weird problems" like creating a thread post taking a very long time, giving timeout errors, busying your server a lot, sending the posts to some users and fail to send others etc.

To handle this job, you have to build up a completely different structure which will slowly (in small groups) notify forum subscribers in a distrubed time period so it's not a 2 min. hack.

Vb3 might have a solution for this. Or even if it does not, it would be easier to code this structure depending on its software CRON feature.

yeah, could you imagine if 50 member subscribe to a forum and 2 - 3 people reply within 30 seconds ... LOL.