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* - Vitani - Sep 24, 2017
Never really used the feature myself as I prefer to just keep the important threads in my browser bookmarks. Crazy that someone was actually subscribed to +10k threads.
* - Androctonus - Sep 24, 2017
I was going to ask why not remove the email function of subscribed threads instead but the general consensus here is that people weren't using the feature. I myself used it but it's not a hassle to bookmark them instead.
* - oscast - Sep 24, 2017
(Sep 24, 2017 12:58 PM)Androctonus Wrote: I was going to ask why not remove the email function of subscribed threads instead but the general consensus here is that people weren't using the feature. I myself used it but it's not a hassle to bookmark them instead.
I'm 100% okay with the email function being scraped but getting notified in usercp is so god damn helpful (for me at least) I heavily dislike chrome on my phone so I use safari. There is no way for me to bookmark stuff on chrome and keep track of it on safari. I use HF on my PC and my phone equally.
* - Mustys - Sep 24, 2017
I didn't even notice this future, I think you know whats best for our community.
Long live HF!
* - VirtualFrost - Sep 24, 2017
(Sep 24, 2017 05:29 PM)xadamxk Wrote: I have it set to subscribe when I post on a thread.
It's a native feature of the forum, is it not?
It is but is there a point staying subscribed to thousands of threads is the issue
* - VirtualFrost - Sep 24, 2017
(Sep 24, 2017 06:49 PM)xadamxk Wrote: Well who posts only to go back to unsubscribe to threads? LOL
Not sure, I don't see a reason to subscribe to threads apart from the ones I stated earlier if I wanna see responses I'll just go through my posts again.
I kinda don't fully understand how it's abuse if the feature exists within the forum itself, but maybe I just don't fully understand the reason to need to subscribe to every single thread you post on.
* - VirtualFrost - Sep 24, 2017
(Sep 24, 2017 10:09 PM)xadamxk Wrote: From my understanding, it's either all or none of them.You click thread options at the top of the thread and click subscribe thread if you want to pick which threads are subscribed, rather than subscribing to every single one.
How else do we know if a thread we commented on gets a response?
Quote:Do people actually manually check that shit? I've been using no email subscriptions for years now.
I do at least, but I don't post much every single day, most I go back is 3 pages and that takes like 20 seconds to do generally, otherwise a couple seconds to check just the first page. I don't really care enough to keep up with general discussion threads a month later, I'd rather see new discussions. I also mostly post around this section too which would be useless to sub to as it's mostly questions and then the threads dead forever.
* - Vana - Sep 24, 2017
(Sep 24, 2017 10:27 PM)VirtualFrost Wrote: rather than subscribing to every single one.
Why is there built-in functionality to do that though, if it's so frowned upon?
* - KyleWTF - Sep 24, 2017
(Sep 24, 2017 10:09 PM)xadamxk Wrote: From my understanding, it's either all or none of them.
How else do we know if a thread we commented on gets a response?
Do people actually manually check that shit? I've been using no email subscriptions for years now.
I've been manually checking my posts to check replies, but when I was very active I recall this being very difficult.
I've never even used the subscription feature.
Assholes while find a way to ruin anything.., although without a limit on that feature, there will always be someone trying to fuck around with HF and use up every itty bitty resource of this website.
Pathetic.
🤝
* - #Skyline - Sep 24, 2017
Swear you've banned users in the past for this.
Just limit the amount of threads we can subscribe too.
* - KyleWTF - Sep 24, 2017
(Sep 23, 2017 06:16 PM)Omniscient Wrote: I will have to write a plugin to block excessive subscriptions to stop the abuse.
(Sep 24, 2017 11:09 PM)#Skyline Wrote: Swear you've banned users in the past for this.
Just limit the amount of threads we can subscribe too.
He already said that he's planning on it.
* - #Skyline - Sep 24, 2017
(Sep 24, 2017 11:11 PM)KyleWTF Wrote: He already said that he's planning on it.
Thanks, I can read. Was talking about when he writes the plugin.... If you got common sense.
* - VirtualFrost - Sep 25, 2017
(Sep 24, 2017 10:50 PM)Vana Wrote: Why is there built-in functionality to do that though, if it's so frowned upon?
Dunno, gonna have to ask him yourself. Probably doesn't care if you use it as long as you eventually unsub from ones you don't need. Maybe he didn't notice it was a feature inside the forum.
* - Elitas - Sep 25, 2017
IMO, I don't think the users intended to do this. They're all very active users who were banned and I'm sure they had the setting to auto-subscribe (I know I did), and had I posted loads more on (unique) threads than I have, then I'm sure I'd have subscribed to thousands of different threads.
* - Vitani - Sep 25, 2017
(Sep 25, 2017 03:12 AM)Elitas Wrote: IMO, I don't think the users intended to do this. They're all very active users who were banned and I'm sure they had the setting to auto-subscribe (I know I did), and had I posted loads more on (unique) threads than I have, then I'm sure I'd have subscribed to thousands of different threads.
By default it's switched off. I do think they didn't know that they were causing harm in a way, even though it's still pretty dumb and unnecessary to be subscribed to thousands of threads.