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I picked vB because I thought it was a more robust architecture than UBB .. I belive it is, but the lack of a digest notification facilty and an email interface to the forums is driving me to rethink my decision. Is something coming in a new version? There are a lot of "promised" hacks out there, but people don't seem to get enough time to crank it out. For me this is THE NUMBER ONE shortcoming in vB. I don't want to switch, but my users are driving me crazy...they are used to eGroups and loved it and when I switched them to vB, they have stopped interacting.
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Well, there's an option to subscribe to a thread or being notified by email when there's a new post. The digest is somehow "done" by Tubedoggs' Community bulletin. However, this need a bit work for the admin since needs to send it himself.
However, the digest is sure a good suggestion.
True, I'm looking for it to be productized more. Also, I would like users to be able to respond to messages they receive in email by replying in email and have the message posted to the BBS too...like yahoo groups or the old eGroups
So I'm curious Dons. If these things were necessary when you made your decision to buy vBulletin, why did you buy it? They certainly were not listed as features of the product.
I need these things too (at least the digest email - or formal support for the Community Bulletin), but the other things that vBulletin brought to the table made my decision easy without them.
I'm getting more and more pressure to support a daily digest mode email so I'm probably going to have to install the Community Bulletin and figure out how to run it from a cron job - though I'm not keen on running a hacked board, since I don't want the maintenance overhead. I went with a purchased product with 90% of the features I needed to keep me from having to wrote software myself...
i need a simple fix to this whole digest thing... all my users must be notified everytime there is a new thread. is there a simple enough way to just get everyone an email everytime there is a new thread... i need to do this for about 70-80 users total. i'll wait for vBulletin to release there 3.0 to get the real peice i want...
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10-14-2001, 01:58 PM
