Attention Displaced DP Members

[Unknownuser]

I need to get used to using this site. Honestly the only reason Im not very active here is because it's hard to follow a conversation. It would be nice to get a notification when someone responds to my comment or post. This is all I ask for. Is it too much?

 

[acptulsa]

It would be nice to get a notification when someone responds to my comment or post. This is all I ask for. Is it too much?

I don't know enough about vbulletin software to know. But if you subscribe to every thread you post in, you'll know even if they respond to you without quoting you.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

I don't know enough about vbulletin software to know. But if you subscribe to every thread you post in, you'll know even if they respond to you without quoting you.

I think you are missing the point.... A thread that I'm subscribed to may go 25 posts and no one responds to what I've said. I am notified of those 25 posts when I'm "subscribed" (and I have my setting so that I'm subscribed to every thread I post in). That's not the "notification" we are asking for. When someone "quotes" me and addresses something I've said... THAT'S the notification we would like to have...

 

[William Tell]

I think you are missing the point.... A thread that I'm subscribed to may go 25 posts and no one responds to what I've said. I am notified of those 25 posts when I'm "subscribed" (and I have my setting so that I'm subscribed to every thread I post in). That's not the "notification" we are asking for. When someone "quotes" me and addresses something I've said... THAT'S the notification we would like to have...

Ya, but we don't have that here...

 

[Unknownuser]

I think you are missing the point.... A thread that I'm subscribed to may go 25 posts and no one responds to what I've said. I am notified of those 25 posts when I'm "subscribed" (and I have my setting so that I'm subscribed to every thread I post in). That's not the "notification" we are asking for. When someone "quotes" me and addresses something I've said... THAT'S the notification we would like to have...

Bingo!

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

Ya, but we don't have that here...

Right you are!!!

 

[HVACTech]

I think you are missing the point.... A thread that I'm subscribed to may go 25 posts and no one responds to what I've said. I am notified of those 25 posts when I'm "subscribed" (and I have my setting so that I'm subscribed to every thread I post in). That's not the "notification" we are asking for. When someone "quotes" me and addresses something I've said... THAT'S the notification we would like to have...

ya, I missed that a lot when I first made this place my home..
that was about a year ago I suppose, I don't really miss it anymore.

I really like the people here, and feel that I have been warmly welcomed.
and even the ones that I don't get along with are well mannered and respectful.. (all things being equal)

I think it is important to note, that this is a Liberty forest. it is not an "ark" with closed membership and barred topics.
I am hopeful that more will join us from the DP. after it closes for the umpteenth time.

 

[William Tell]

ya, I missed that a lot when I first made this place my home..
that was about a year ago I suppose, I don't really miss it anymore.

Yeah, it took some time for me to get used to this setup as well. I like it now. Given the choice of seeing just direct replies or updates on subscribed threads. I prefer updates on threads.

The forum is set up so different from the DP that notifications about replies wouldn't work anyway. On the DP, whenever you reply its directly to another user's comment. Here, you just post in a thread. Often times you click the quote bracket, but not always. Threads go very differently here than DP. Over there conversations don't continue unless on a particular comment string. Here one comment can switch the focus of an entire thread.

 

[HVACTech]

Yeah, it took some time for me to get used to this setup as well. I like it now. Given the choice of seeing just direct replies or updates on subscribed threads. I prefer updates on threads.

The forum is set up so different from the DP that notifications about replies wouldn't work anyway. On the DP, whenever you reply its directly to another user's comment. Here, you just post in a thread. Often times you click the quote bracket, but not always. Threads go very differently here than DP. Over there conversations don't continue unless on a particular comment string. Here one comment can switch the focus of an entire thread.

my dear Mr Watson, methinks thou has unraveled the mystery of thread hijacking!

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

Yeah, it took some time for me to get used to this setup as well. I like it now. Given the choice of seeing just direct replies or updates on subscribed threads. I prefer updates on threads.

The forum is set up so different from the DP that notifications about replies wouldn't work anyway. On the DP, whenever you reply its directly to another user's comment. Here, you just post in a thread. Often times you click the quote bracket, but not always. Threads go very differently here than DP. Over there conversations don't continue unless on a particular comment string. Here one comment can switch the focus of an entire thread.

Not really. At DP you can certainly start a new line of responses under any thread (just like here). It's not really the DP that I'm referring to but rather other forums that I've participated in. The problem with not being notified of a direct quote of something I've posted is that I might not see it and then not respond to the question or comment. I simply don't have the time to go back through every post in a thread I'm "subscribed" to ESPECIALLY if it's a very hot topic and has run 4 pages of comments since my last visit.

I guess this forum structure is only "friendly" to people who have lots of time each day to browse the posts. Unfortunately I don't have that much time so I miss lots of responses to what I've posted.

Really guys, it's been 20 some years since I've written code but I ABSOLUTELY KNOW that this can be done and it's not even that hard to do...

 

[acptulsa]

This can't be the only vBulletin forum people feel this way about. Seems to me someone who could write a patch that makes this possible would be able to make a buck or two.