site suggestions

by acr on Nov 27, 2010 7:47 AM EST

Maybe I'm missing the settings page somewhere, if not then I would like to make some site suggestions. What led me to make this post is that I remember a week or two ago there was a post about people making fantasy baseball suggestions for off season coverage. I started to try to find it, wading through pages of history to see if there had been any new replies to the thread. That's when I asked myself- why can't we subscribe to threads to get email notifications for new replies? That would be a nice way of being able to keep up on new replies and most blogs offer that feature.

The other thing I wish was that when a reply to a Fanpost thread was made that the thread jumped up to the top of the list on the front page. That way the more active threads could always stay near the top. How things are now, whether a thread is popular or not doesn't matter as the new ones keep pushing the older ones down.

So, in all- option to subscribe to any new article or Fanpost with email notification for a new reply. And new Fanpost replies pushes the Fanpost to the top of the page in the Fanpost section.

Any way to get that done?

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I can certainly ask

but, I know on some of the other team site, the threads gets hundreds (and sometimes 1,000+ ) of comments, so getting an email for every comment would be burdensome.

Ray Guilfoyle
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by Ray Guilfoyle on Nov 27, 2010 9:11 AM EST reply actions

it's automated

It’s not a manual reply by the mods- just an automatic message saying there has been a reply to a thread we have subscribed to (either posted in or started). Nearly all the blogs these days have this option.

by acr on Dec 27, 2010 1:15 AM EST up reply actions

ok thanks

I think about half or more of the blogs I’m on have the option of email notifications available. Of the larger ones, like this one, I think this site is the only one that doesn’t have it. For recently replied to threads to pop to the top would be important too. I think sometimes there are some good articles published that would get a lot more responses if they were not pushed further and further down. Same for Fanposts. Although I am sure you guys want the most recent articles to be on the front page so maybe there’s some way older articles can be on page two with the ones most recently replied to popping to the top of that page?

by acr on Nov 27, 2010 2:02 PM EST reply actions