Forum Activity for @strumelia

auto-follow a discussion when you've posted to it

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Wow that is more complicated than I ever imagined- thank you for taking the time to figure this issue out Michael!

That "The Member" test member was created very early on in my site by one of my profile admins who then later left the site. BUT-
I am noticing that on FOTMD, NONE of my members (either admin or regular quotas) have the notification option available for "Forum Updated" anymore. I thought I saw that option in the dropdown previously when logged in as master admin and when I started this support thread... now it's GONE altogether, even after integ check and cache clearing?
Am I losing my mind?

Yet on my Pennywhistleclub site, everyone does have the "forum updated" option in their notification dropdown, and it's all working right.

This explains why on my other site all people successfully get set to 'follow' any discussions they post to. But on FOTMD (my main active site) it's

How to use the notifications dropdown menu - more clarity is needed

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That is my experience as well. My members tend to need everything spelled out or they get lost. Every single time this comes up with one of my members who are struggling with notifications, they tell me they didn't realize there were other options as well in a drop down there. Every time. (d'OH!)

I reeeally like PJ's suggestion but would word it a bit more succinctly, like this:

Choose or change which site activities you'd like to be notified about in this dropdown menu. The default setting for each is 'send email'. Disable all notifications with the checkbox at bottom.

For sites where the members (and admins) are more savvy, one could easily change the language string to simply "choose your notification options".

...and YEAH x 100 for putting the 'disable all' checkbox at BOTTOM! ;D

Question Concerning Groups

Design and Skin Customization

I think how I did that 'way back when' was by modifying/hiding the "+" button for Groups, for all but Master Admin. Have you fooled with the button modifier next to your "+" button when in your Groups profile tab?

Is there a way to reorder GROUPS

Design and Skin Customization

You'd be looking in your template for where they are currently ordered by, and making sure it was by their Group ID number, like:

Daily Offsite Backups form

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FWIW, I am not experiencing this problem, just checked it in the sequence you described.
(win 7, Chrome)
updated by @strumelia: 05/07/18 09:52:17AM

auto-follow a discussion when you've posted to it

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Micheal- brilliant find!
So I looked at the default Ninja skin (the 'parent' of my two JR sites are custom skins)... and Ninja DOES have that setting in the notification options. Also, my other JR site Pennywhistleclub.com DOES have the setting in my custom skin there (which was cloned from my FOTMD.com custom skin about a year ago).
So sometime in the past year, for some reason, that setting went missing -but only on my FOTMD.com site's custom skin. I would not have 'intentionally' removed it, but maybe something else that was done had that as an unintentional consequence.
I'm hoping you can figure out the issue/mystery when you have the time.
Thank you so much! Your help is so much appreciated.

auto-follow a discussion when you've posted to it

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Michael, I just tested it again and it's not working for me when I'm logged in as regular member The Member (pw xxxxxxxx)
I just posted in both theose forum threads you created, and it did not result in my 'following' either discussion.
I also tested the same thing as The Member yesterday in a GROUP discussion, with the SAME results, here:
https://fotmd.com/strumelia/group_discuss/2142/where-to-start#cm145353

The question seems to be- why are you and I getting different results?

Can you maybe do the same test I just did, while logged on as The Member? (btw I have all notifications for The Member turned ON).

auto-follow a discussion when you've posted to it

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I'll have to test again, Michael.
I know when one creates a discussion, one is automatically subscribed to it, and that's fine.
But the other day i logged in as a regular member and made a post to a discussion created by someone else, and the yellow Follow button did NOT get activated, even after refreshing cache and refreshing browser. Let me experiment a little more here, with group discussions as well, and I;ll get back here again. Thanks!

auto-follow a discussion when you've posted to it

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I just now realized that my sites are set differently for Admins than for regular members in this way-
when a regular member makes a post to either a jrForum forum discussion OR a Group discussion... they are NOT automatically set to be 'following' that discussion. I thought they WERE, because as Admin it works for me to be set to Follow any discussion when i make a post in it. My site was set up several years ago and i can't remember the area that controls this, even after looking around in modules and templates.
I know this is in effect here on the JR support forum, and I've come to appreciate it from a 'regular member' user's standpoint. I need to make it work for both jrForum discussions and for Group discussions.

Where/how do i apply the same 'auto-follow discussion upon posting' setting for my regular members, that i currently have set for Admin? Not sure where to find that. Thanks!
updated by @strumelia: 11/09/18 10:09:37PM

JR sites going down...

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Do you keep a lot of sites on that server, both JR and non-JR sites?