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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: tabs4me on June 16, 2013, 03:06 am

Title: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: tabs4me on June 16, 2013, 03:06 am
is it basically subscribing to a thread?
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: Dutch81 on June 16, 2013, 09:18 am
is it basically subscribing to a thread?
Correct.
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: mollyfan on June 20, 2013, 03:08 am
It doesn't work though.

Agreed! They should start working on the forums too :) it would be nice to have the functions of the forums working :) I can also help if need be
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: Rastaman Vibration on June 20, 2013, 04:48 pm
Notify just emails you if someone posted in said thread. It doesn't work because when you signed up for a forum account you didn't enter a real email address (I hope!)
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: mcguire39 on June 20, 2013, 05:06 pm
Right it doesn't work to e-mail notifications. You could have used a valid e-mail address at signup such as @tormail.org. My guess is it doesn't work because it is not safe for SR nor the forums to send e-mail messages. Somewhere in the e-mail process a valid IP address would have to show up to make it out to the clearnet, if for no other reason than some server has to connect to the delivery address mail server to deliver the message. And that seems like it would be highly risky.
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: mezzomixtor on June 21, 2013, 01:53 pm
and whats the deal with all the people writting "subscribing" in a thread? Is it that you can view your previous posts and find an important thread again easily the next time?
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: coldyprakob on June 21, 2013, 02:28 pm
and whats the deal with all the people writting "subscribing" in a thread? Is it that you can view your previous posts and find an important thread again easily the next time?

yeah, I would also like to know. Would be good to have an option to save favourite threads!
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: NewStem on June 21, 2013, 02:45 pm
People 'subscribing' to a thread are commenting in it so the thread appears when they click "show new replies to your posts." This is at the top left of your screen, underneath "Hello [your username]". It's a very handy feature, but one thing I have yet to figure out after months of posting- how the hell does one unsubscribe?!
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: Rastaman Vibration on June 21, 2013, 04:28 pm
It's a very handy feature, but one thing I have yet to figure out after months of posting- how the hell does one unsubscribe?!

Delete your original post?
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: coldyprakob on June 21, 2013, 04:31 pm
People 'subscribing' to a thread are commenting in it so the thread appears when they click "show new replies to your posts." This is at the top left of your screen, underneath "Hello [your username]". It's a very handy feature, but one thing I have yet to figure out after months of posting- how the hell does one unsubscribe?!

Thanks for the info! I already thought it might be this...
And for "unsubscribing" Rastaman is right, I already did it before, just deleted my post and it wont appear in replies to your post anymore!
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: NewStem on June 21, 2013, 04:39 pm
Damn... genius! Thanks guys.
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: mezzomixtor on June 21, 2013, 07:49 pm
+1 awesome thx guys :D
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: livestr0ng on June 21, 2013, 08:24 pm
You guys are silly. That's not how I use 'Notify' anyway.

Profile>Modify Profile>Notifications

If I'm supposed to leave a review for somebody or a thread has info I want for later, I click notify in the thread so I can easily get back to it when I need to.
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: Jack N Hoff on June 21, 2013, 08:26 pm
You guys are silly. That's not how I use 'Notify' anyway.

Profile>Modify Profile>Notifications

If I'm supposed to leave a review for somebody or a thread has info I want for later, I click notify in the thread so I can easily get back to it when I need to.

Mother of God!
Title: Re: What does clicking Notify do?
Post by: coldyprakob on June 24, 2013, 08:55 pm
You guys are silly. That's not how I use 'Notify' anyway.

Profile>Modify Profile>Notifications

If I'm supposed to leave a review for somebody or a thread has info I want for later, I click notify in the thread so I can easily get back to it when I need to.

Nice!! I'm using that alot now! Thank you!
Although there could be a easier and less hidden way to just subscribe to topics or make them your favourite :)