   E-mail notification could be a bit better =p
  Hi, I know these forums already have e-mail notification for when someone replies to a new post, but in many other forums this e-mail notification is triggered whenever someone replies to a thread where you already replied (discussions you''re obviously interested in watching). Why isn''t this feature in the gamedev forums too? It''s really annoying that I have to keep a text file with all the threads where I replied and copy-paste them to check if there''s a new reply. 
  Or you could just use that "Watch this thread" link instead. ;  Hmm. It was the first thing I clicked after my first reply here in the forums, and it took me to a page that looks like a forum except that it''s completely blank. I didn''t get any notifications so I thought "what the heck" and forgot about it =P I''ll try it again maybe it was a bug or something. But it could be a *little* more intuitive (why is the e-mail notification option in new threads and not in replies??). ;  I agree, I''d really like E-mail notification on any threads. I often forget to check my watch list.   ---Just trying to be helpful.Sebastian BeschkeJust some student from Germanyhttp://mitglied.lycos.de/xplosiff;  Or you could just look in your profile for all your recent posts.   "Sneftel is correct, if rather vulgar." --Flarelocke ;  Or you can go into suspended animation for the next five years and hopefully when you come out the new forums will be in place. (Reportedly, the new forums will have a more complete list of recent threads you''ve posted in.) ;  Or you can write a background application that watches your network activity and detects when you''ve responded in a thread, and automatically adds that thread to a list of links it crawls every five minutes, to notify you of updates.   "Sneftel is correct, if rather vulgar." --Flarelocke ;  Or you could read through the following threads, sorted by date (retrieved in ~10 seconds by searching for "email notification" within this forum):http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=206893, 11 Feb 2004http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=170686, 24 Jul 2003http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=165067, 26 Jun 2003http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=124806, 23 Nov 2002http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=117646, 5 Oct 2002http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=20006, 21 Jul 2000I don''t think any of the rationale has changed in terms of response. Reading through would be instructive (and spare staff/mods having to reiterate the same over and over). ;  I don''t mean to step on anyone''s toes, but if there''s so many people having trouble with this, why don''t you consider that maybe the way you have it is not the best method? I''ve seen really good points in those threads you mentioned, about features that wouldn''t be that hard to implement, and wouldn''t affect the performance or bandwidth of the servers. Of course we don''t need huge avatars and stupid statistics. Since you don''t have anything like that, it makes sense that you could afford e-mail notification. And you don''t need to send an e-mail for every reply, just the first one until the user visits the thread again. If you don''t wanna do that, at least try to come up with a better system for keeping track of threads. Thanks ;quote:Original post by Jotaf  I don''t mean to step on anyone''s toes, but if there''s so many people having trouble with this, why don''t you consider that maybe the way you have it is not the best method?I concur. I think we need a more robust system. However, GDNet is a forum and not a mailing list, so the fundamental of us catering to a user''s obsessive need to track a/every thread without visiting the site is questionable.We''ll see what can be done. 