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I've noticed at another forum site that their notification software sends out only one notification for a single thread until you visit the thread again.
The notification email contains this at the bottom:
"There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again."
I think this is a really good idea for three reasons:
1) It will cut down on cp's bandwidth
2) When I get a notification I go and read the whole thread anyway so there's no point in notifying me again if I've just visited. Sometimes I'll post something brilliant or stupid or controversial, take off for the day, come back and there are like 32 emails sitting in my inbox notifying me of every reply needlessly.
3) It might take a load off the C.P. email server and whatever does the notification processing.
-- modified at 12:23 Wednesday 18th April, 2007
I don't know how but two people seemed to think this means you would get no notifications, again, this just means you would get 1 notification even if there were 100 replies, UNTIL YOU READ ANY OF THE REPLIES IN THE THREAD, then it resets and you will get another notification if someone posts something else.
The whole idea is to get only 1 notification when you need it instead of endless notifications whether you need them or not.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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I don't really like the sound of that. I like to receive confirmation of the replies i get.
Brad
Australian
- bryce on "Problems with Code Project"
*sigh* Maunder's been coding again...
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Um..what part of what I wrote led you to believe you would not get email confirmations? I must have typed something wrong because that is not at all what I'm talking about.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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Why not just uncheck "Notify me by e-mail if someone answers this message". I guess it helps to get a notification rather than coming back to check if someone has answered to the reply/question I have posted, especially if its going to be in the programming forums.
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Um..what? I've re-read what I posted and I can't understand where you're coming from, this has to do with how notifications are sent, not whether you get one or not.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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Reading your other responses, I think I get what you want. I just got it confused with something else.
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John Cardinal wrote: don't know how but two people seemed to think this means you would get no notifications, again, this just means you would get 1 notification even if there were 100 replies, UNTIL YOU READ ANY OF THE REPLIES IN THE THREAD, then it resets and you will get another notification if someone posts something else.
WOuld this notification message be sent out every night, or how long does it wait until it sends you the batch notification? Say you post a message and 3 people respond to it with the hour. The system send you a notification that night? What if you don't visit the message? What happens the next night when 0 people respond? Or 3 more people respond?
I'm just trying to nail down the logic, that's all.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007
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It sends you a notification immediately when someone replies. Then no more notifications no matter how many reply until you have visited that thread. After which it resets and does the same thing over again.
An improvement might be to make a digest of all the replies to date that are unread in that single notification.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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I personally prefer CPs system over the other forums, I like having notifications sent regardless of whether I visit the forum or not because sometimes it's just nice to know that someone has replied to the message, you can get the jist of it without having to visit CP.
Which probably saves more bandwidth because if the email doesn't require a reply and I don't want to reply then I don't have to visit and download all the ad pictures etc, plus the Gmail interface is faster (even over broadband) than CP's pages.
I also tend to forget to visit all the threads I'm interested in or have replied to. I'm a member of some Land Rover forums and they do what you're suggesting and I keep wishing that they were as good as CP's forums 
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Those are good points, maybe a digest of all the replies in one message might be more appropriate.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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I could go for that.
Actually, an RSS feed of "replies to your posts" would be even more convenient (though potentially much more bandwidth-intensive).
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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For those who use RSS readers 
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To be honest that's what Gmail does since most times they have the same subject line it groups all the replies together in a long list and only shows one message in the inbox (with the number of messages in the conversation in brackets).
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I like the current system better. And because the notification includes a preview of the message, I can actually decide if I need to open CP to reply to that message or if I can just delete it.
And for big threads where I've posted multiple times, I wouldn't want to search the entire thread to see where else someone has replied to me.
If at all your suggestion is implemented, I do hope it's made optional so people can decide to use the current mechanism if they want to.
Regards,
Nish
Fly on your way like an eagle
Fly as high as the sun
On your wings like an eagle
Fly and touch the sun
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Yeah I guess it depends on what you prefer, but I find it a much cleaner and saner way to handle notifications instead of bombarding me with emails that I don't need. I always go online to read the messages, I never read the email because they are often cut off or out of context in my brain anyway so I see the content in the email and the multiple emails to be entirely useless.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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It would be nice if it was easier to insert code snippets in posts without using the “Ignore HTML tags in this message (good for code snippets)” option. When placing code in <pre> or <code> tags there are still problems with angle brackets and their contents, blank lines and smiley faces. Perhaps some script could be made which escapes the contents and does whatever else is needed in these tags.
Steve
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We're moving to a WYSIWYG editor for the boards. That'll help.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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CPHog ;P while we wait for this long-arriving redesign.
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I've been seeing an awful lot of Internal Server Error messages these last couple days. Probably 2-3 for every five messages i post.
Why does IIS hate me so? 
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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I've asked the hardware guys what's going on. Seems to be a network issue somewhere.
Remember: it's the season for squirrels to come out of hibernation. Anything could happen.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Most suggestions on correcting the voting system (as seen in the recent thread) are focused on cutting the "random" votes.
May be we should go another way - and encourage voting? So all "random" votes will be (statistically) screened by the fair ones.
Many readers that e-mailed me are even unaware that they could vote for the article. I think that placing something like:
"If you find this article useful - please login and vote for it (voting form is in the end of the article text)."
at the top of every article will help a lot.
Best regards,
- Dmitry.
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Don't worry, be happy  )
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Dmitry Khudorozhkov wrote: "If you find this article useful - please login and vote for it (voting form is in the end of the article text)."
Or, maybe, just fix the voting form such that it's always on-screen...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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As I understand the idea of voting form now (being below the article) - the user is expected to vote after reading the article.
I think that the ever-on-screen voting form will rage (some) users rather than promote voting...
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Dmitry Khudorozhkov wrote: I think that the ever-on-screen voting form will rage (some) users rather than promote voting...
Some users are just never happy. 
Personally, i like things to be available when they're relevant. It irks me to scroll hunting for the voting, bookmark, "articles by this author" etc. links - i'd much rather they were always ready-at-hand. But that's me - others have notably different opinions on this... 
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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You mean something like the W3C logo that accompanies some of their pages where the div which contains all the useful stuff is at a fixed location on the viewing page rather than relative to the document? Like this[^]?
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