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but notify also send you emails.

writing 'subbed' doesn't subscribe you to emails.

Ya, since work has not yet begun on this forum software's successor,  I too would like to see a couple of the most painful issues resolved in the software currently used.

 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50617.0

Subbed.

Also, is it REALLY that hard to scroll past the "Subbed" comments?  It takes a fraction of a second, really...

Ok, I agree.  It would be nice to be able to subscribe to threads without writing in them.

As somebody who reads the forum using the RSS feed, it's really annoying to see a notification there are new messages and a bunch of them are "I'm too lazy to press the notify button"

I consider those messages polution that makes the forum less readable

i'm skeptical... can you tell me which checkbox exactly achieves this?

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:P

This is something we need. It should only take a few minutes to make "notified" threads appear in "Show new replies to your posts"

Those are annoying. I've looked into creating a "watchlist" feature in SMF, but it seems very difficult (which is probably why there are no modifications that do that already).

He's welcome to write the code, then.

You also need to be able to remove topics from unreadreplies for it to be usable as a watchlist.

nope, that does not help you subscribe without posting 'subbed'.

okay mis-understanding... what people posting 'subbed' really want to achieve, is being notified of new replies without getting emails.

you can't do that any other way.

What people could do is click notify, and then filter out all the email notifications to /dev/null.

Maybe I misunderstood, I guess "notify" still doesn't get the topic to show up on the watch-list?

Right - it just spams your email account.

Yeah notifications are worthless, I'm not gonna check my email to see if there are replies to threads I like to read. Needs to be a subscribe button next to the notify button, that will add it to a watchlist below the other two.

This. ^^

Since the new forum software will never actually get written (or be usable if someone attempts it) can we please get some real forum software working for this place until this hypothetical software is written?  It's been months since the project was "started" and there's been no movement.  It will be years more before there is anything even vaguely usable, if ever... so in the interim, I propose moving to modern, secure (at least more secure, anyway), feature rich forum software. 

You can take your pick, since literally any forum software is an improvement over SMF.

Now THERE'S something to +1!

My personal recommendation is xenForo, but I'm partial to modern-looking websites.

The specification in "Looking for someone to create/modify software for this forum [2200+ BTC]" (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50617.0) could use a rewrite,
with the words "shall", "will", and "must" used more sparingly. Make the $10000 bounty known outside this forum. HN? /r/programming?

I was just going to suggest xenForo. It's a terrific forum software.

Could you give an example of an existing forum that uses it so that I can go check it out?

www.minecraftcc.com
bitcoinforums.net (though it is currently down while the new site owner works things out on his end)
Or, just www.xenforo.com itself.  You can even get a 3-day "demo" forum setup with one click to give it a try, including all administrative functionality.

I went and had a look at xenForo's own forums, and after a bit of navigation I came to the conclusion that it is a bit.... busy, really. There is some neat functionality, but I guess I'm used to SMF and its stripped-down nature.

The stripped-down nature is a bit of the problem. But aye, like SgtSpike, I really prefer modern sites, and despise SMF for this reason.

Suggestion. As a compromise between contributing and writing 'sub', write one word about how you feel about the thread. Interested, concerned, afraid, excited, happy, rockhard, flaccid, etc.

I'd prefer just "sub", actually. These posts are easier to ignore.

Hmm, ok, I was looking forward to writing "flaccid" and "rockhard" but I'll refrain.

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=350

Maybe this link will help things along...

I seem to recall theymos stating that he has investigated numerous plugins that didn't meet the technical or security requirements, and since this one was written in 2006 I'm guessing it has been seen. But if it works, lets use it!

Ignore

Are people really that lazy? They can't be bothered to change their notification settings so they just post "subscribed" everywhere. It does get kinda annoying...  :-\

Was asking myself the exact same question.
Post count raise probably is the answer.
19 posts since this morning, most of them just fluff lol

EDIT: Found the answer https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=86513.msg951345#msg951345
oh, mega LOL

Lol what is wrong with posting? I am always active in forums.

Well then good. What do you think about one line subscribe posts?

You missed the entire point, there is no "setting" to change to accomplish the same thing that posting in a thread does. They want it to be added to a watchlist like "Show new replies to your posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=unreadreplies)", notifications only send you emails which is largely useless.

This has been covered a couple times in this thread already, but guess you're too busy posting in threads to read them.

Even says it in the OP