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NS Notifications?

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Ian.D
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To improve the communication aspect of the website and enhance the forums, particularly the BST forum, why not send notification emails or even have some sort of pop-up when logging on to the site that notifies you of a message, a post in your forum, or a comment on one of your pics/vids?

I know from experience that sometimes a question directed at me in a video or post in one of my BST threads goes unnoticed, something that I feel could be easily corrected. Im basically talking about copying the notification system that facebook uses, which allows the user to choose wether or not they would like to have an email sent to them when something happens that involves them, and also has a little red box pop up when you log in, showing you the number of notifications you have.

I feel this could make the site a lot easier to manage, especially for those who do not log on multiple times a day.

Thoughts?


Jul 13 2010 4:52PM
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JStrathern
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repost but pretty good idea
Jul 13 2010 4:59PM
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Ian.D
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shoulda used the search bar oh well... my bad
Jul 13 2010 5:05PM
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Schlop
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Quality repost though, it's a good idea. I'm guessing it would take a ton of time and money to follow through with this though
Jul 13 2010 7:04PM
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FREEskiLINE
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this should deffinatley be considered i think
Jul 13 2010 7:10PM
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FreeskierRocco.
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Repost x6186186146841651861

but I also agree that it is a solid idea.

Jul 13 2010 7:27PM
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Mr.Panda
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Agreed. It gets up once every 3 months or so.

One thing. The EA Game forums have it where if you post in a thread you get a notification when the FIRST new post is posted. You don't get one for every post but just a notification for the first one and that is it. If they implemented it that way rather than other forums that send you an email EVERY time the thread gets posted in it would be good for many members.

Having it as an option is key though.
Jul 13 2010 8:03PM
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Gameboy
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Yeah that was the first thing that came to my mind. If you receive a message from every post in the thread that would make a lot of messages. Having the option would be a great solution.
Jul 13 2010 8:12PM
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Schlop
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What about the newest sort of facebook notifuckations? Where they come up on the side and fade off after a couple of seconds
Jul 14 2010 1:35AM
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Mr.Panda
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I think people were talking notifications sent to their E-mail. Could be wrong though.
Jul 14 2010 1:36AM
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FreeskierRocco.
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I'd rather get notifications on NS than through my email.
Jul 14 2010 7:06PM
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E.A.D.C
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heaps good idea. cant tell when anyone has done anything unless you look for it
Jul 17 2010 10:13AM
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leahey
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Yep, also in those notifications like a little snippit (sp?) of what was replyed in that thread. So many times I look in my threads to see if someone replied to my post, and it's a bump.
Jul 17 2010 12:52PM
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RobertBB
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It's a good idea, but it would be pretty annoying for people that create a thread that ends up with 10 ++ pages. It's like logging on FaceBook and have 100 notifications.
you know?
Jul 17 2010 6:03PM
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Ian.D
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Yes, but theoretically you would simply see that there was 100 notifications, click your "notification tab" once, and the number would disappear. If you wanted to, you could scroll through them all to see who particularly commented or if something other than that one thread was mixed in.

similar to this: Click for larger image
Jul 18 2010 12:34AM
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