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Darvaleth Sigma
Imperial Security Hegemony
#1 - 2013-05-28 12:53:57 UTC
Hi there,

I was just wondering if there is actually any use for the silly little subscribe button on a thread. If I subscribe to a thread, there's no list of "subscribed threads" I can consult that I know of (if there is it must be very inaccessible), and as for subscribed threads giving you notifications when there are posts there... total bull, nothing happens whatsoever.

Is there any point to it? Can CCP fix it so there is a point to it?

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Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life!
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#2 - 2013-05-28 12:55:19 UTC
Darvaleth Sigma wrote:
Hi there,

I was just wondering if there is actually any use for the silly little subscribe button on a thread. If I subscribe to a thread, there's no list of "subscribed threads" I can consult that I know of (if there is it must be very inaccessible), and as for subscribed threads giving you notifications when there are posts there... total bull, nothing happens whatsoever.

Is there any point to it? Can CCP fix it so there is a point to it?


I have subscribed to your thread. I look forward to further updates.

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#3 - 2013-05-28 13:10:48 UTC
Darvaleth Sigma wrote:
Hi there,

I was just wondering if there is actually any use for the silly little subscribe button on a thread. If I subscribe to a thread, there's no list of "subscribed threads" I can consult that I know of (if there is it must be very inaccessible), and as for subscribed threads giving you notifications when there are posts there... total bull, nothing happens whatsoever.

Is there any point to it? Can CCP fix it so there is a point to it?


Subscribing used to mean that you'd get notifications of further posts to that thread. The notification would appear in the little flag menu, along with "so and so liked your forum post on such and such".

At about the time of FanFest 2013 the notifications stopped working. It would not surprise me to find that some magical counter has hit 32767 because the original BBS software that EVE forums are based on was never designed to handle tens of thousands of users.

Make sure you file a bug report, pointing out that subscriptions don't produce any notifications. You might also want to add a feature request (e.g.: in the Features & Ideas discussion forum) for a list of subscribed threads.

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Vito Tattaglia
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-05-28 13:14:56 UTC
The notifications seemed to have stopped working a while back. It's unfortunate. I suggest using the thread favouriting feature as a substitute.
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#5 - 2013-05-28 13:34:53 UTC
Web dev team is on (permanent) vacation.
See giant footer note for example. Roll
Darvaleth Sigma
Imperial Security Hegemony
#6 - 2013-05-28 14:07:20 UTC
I guess using favourites would be easier; the worse is when you've tried to subscribe to, say, a Character Bazaar thread, and you have to trawl through a gazillion pages to find it (because the search function looking for a specific character doesn't work either... of course).

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Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life!
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-05-28 14:17:45 UTC
The forum hamsters are on strike, CCP tried mice as a replacement and that didn't work.

aka

Knwon bug, CCP will fix it Soon™

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Dring Dingle
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2013-05-28 14:49:05 UTC
They have said they will fix the forum notification system..... "Apparently"
iskflakes
#9 - 2013-05-28 15:55:10 UTC
It costs one PLEX to activate forum notifications now, didn't you know this?

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Tiven loves Tansien
Doomheim
#10 - 2013-05-29 09:23:42 UTC
Inefficient and dirty coding once again.
FlamesOfHeaven
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2013-05-29 10:34:26 UTC
Tiven loves Tansien wrote:
Inefficient and dirty coding once again.



Everything is.

Time to program in raw binary again.
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#12 - 2013-05-29 11:13:01 UTC
FlamesOfHeaven wrote:
Tiven loves Tansien wrote:
Inefficient and dirty coding once again.



Everything is.

Time to program in raw binary again.


01001001011100110010000001110000011011110111001101110100011010010110111001100111001000000110100101101110001000000110001001101001011011100110000101110010011110010010000001101111011010110010000001110100011011110110111100111111

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#13 - 2013-05-29 11:23:54 UTC
I filed a petition around the time of Fanfest and it seemed to be news to them. It was passed onto the web team.

No word since then.

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Utremi Fasolasi
La Dolce Vita
#14 - 2013-05-29 15:39:20 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
I filed a petition around the time of Fanfest and it seemed to be news to them. It was passed onto the web team.

No word since then.


I did as well around then and CCP Eterne (!) himself replied and told me it was a known issue and being worked on, fix Soon™,
Lyza Kimbo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2013-05-29 16:59:41 UTC
I noticed this problem myself, and it's nice to have confirmation that's it's not just me.

But I can't muster much enthusiasm for complaining about the fact that CCP is focusing on making the game better rather than the forums.

YMMV