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Posted by Necromancer on Sun Aug 17th at 2:39am 2008

I mark the "Notify me when a reply is posted" but I don't get notified on replies.

Why does it not work?
Thanks.



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Posted by larchy on Sun Aug 17th at 7:11am 2008

I'll look into it, thanks smiley



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Posted by larchy2 on Sun Aug 17th at 7:12am 2008

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Posted by larchy2 on Sun Aug 17th at 7:15am 2008

Works for me:




Anyone else having issues?



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Posted by G4MER on Sun Aug 17th at 12:57pm 2008

Have not tried it.. I will have too now though.



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Posted by Necromancer on Mon Aug 18th at 10:04pm 2008

I just wanted to let you know that the reply notification now works for me.



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Posted by larchy on Tue Aug 19th at 6:36am 2008

Well I haven't changed anything... but thanks for letting me know. Cheers smiley



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Aug 19th at 3:19pm 2008

Things have been inconsistent for me on that front too. I've definately had a few emails, but definately not for every post I've made. Oddly, I don't ever recall pressing the "notify me..." button on a post before though. Is there any reason why you'd automatically get such notifications? Or circumstances under which the option would be checked by default? Its possible that in one or two posts I've accidentally (or absent-mindedly!) checked the option somehow, but I really don't remember doing so and yet have had a few emails.

I know, this post probably wasn't of any use whatsoever smiley



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Posted by larchy on Tue Aug 19th at 3:50pm 2008

Its worked ok for me so I'm not really sure... someone complained about always getting mailed on the beta site regardless of what they chose, but noone else had the issue, I couldn't find how it was happening and they never replied to any further posts regarding the issue so I don't know whether there really was a problem or not.


There is a fair bit going on, so there could well be issues but tracking them down might be tricky.


Every time you make a post an entry is made in the database, and that post records whether you want to receive an email on reply - its just a simple 1 for yes, 0 for no depending on whether you tick the box or not.

The script then runs through all the posts for this topic and finds the posts for ppl who have made a reply and whose reply option is set to 1. It then sends them an email and sets the option to a value of 2 so more emails are not sent if there are further replies.

When you revisit the topic to read the reply your value gets changed back to 1.

If you tick or untick the box when editing a reply or posting a new reply the recorded preference will be set to 0 or 1 accordingly.



If ppl are having problems then there is one of three things wrong that I can think of:
1)An error in the flow of actions above
2)An error in my code which implements the above

Either of those will be consistently reproducible if I can narrow down the situation where any problem occurs.

3)The emails aren't being sent 100% of the time, which would be down to the server.



I've tested as much as I reasonably can every bit of the above both locally and on the beta site, checking that the database is getting updated properly at each stage, and haven't been able to see anything not working as it should.


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All that said I still need to add a default preference to the profile page, and maybe a "never send me an email on pain of death" option would be a good idea for those who just plain don't want to use the feature.




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