lotuseclat79
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One of the nice features is that a member can check a box in their user profile to get an "instant email notification" if there is a new post to a thread that the member to which the member becomes subscribed. The other side of the coin is that it seems that I don't always get notified - but that is another entirely different matter than what I am proposing as an improvement here in this post.
I have noticed that I will get a bunch of emails from the same thread before I even have had a chance to look at the earliest post after I became subscribed to the thread.
In light of other websites that have a feature to not issue any more email notices until you revisit the thread (I don't know how that can be detected), it seems to me a waste to have multiple emails sent out prior to a member revisiting the thread to which subscribed, i.e. when the "instant email notification" box is checked - i.e. in order to look at the first reply afterward to a post or subscription to a thread by the user.
It would be less of a performance hit on TSG to not issue multiple new posting email notices to subscribed threads in such cases, and certainly less work and traffic email-wise for TSG - and therby an improvement in the operation of TSG software.
Hope this helps to improve TSG.
-- Tom
I have noticed that I will get a bunch of emails from the same thread before I even have had a chance to look at the earliest post after I became subscribed to the thread.
In light of other websites that have a feature to not issue any more email notices until you revisit the thread (I don't know how that can be detected), it seems to me a waste to have multiple emails sent out prior to a member revisiting the thread to which subscribed, i.e. when the "instant email notification" box is checked - i.e. in order to look at the first reply afterward to a post or subscription to a thread by the user.
It would be less of a performance hit on TSG to not issue multiple new posting email notices to subscribed threads in such cases, and certainly less work and traffic email-wise for TSG - and therby an improvement in the operation of TSG software.
Hope this helps to improve TSG.
-- Tom