Hey there!

I've just noticed a funny issue: each time I am opening a new forum thread, I need to mark the "email replies sent to me" checkbox.

Don't you agree that by default the thread author expects to get all the replies? Nowadays to get to the checkbox I need to get back to the forum, to enter the newly created thread AND only then to mark the checkbox.

Thanks for reading till here :)

Hi, I would certainly hope that the thread author would read most of the replies (unless a thread goes way off topic). However, they might prefer to read them in Skritter, not in their email. (I'm told that some very busy and important people get so much email they can't cope.)

Maybe people expect to keep checking on their own threads for a day or two, and only use the email option when the thread is nearly dead.

Rachael.

Better might be to fix the forum view to show or sort by date of last reply in some way, instead of date of starting of thread. Its too easy for late replies to get totally ignored with the current system.

@wispfrog if you click on "Created" it will sort by "Updated"

@rgwatwormhill: The reason is perfectly understandable, but email notification issue might be solved somewhere in the options. Kinda general checkbox.

Then, the checkbox in each thread will be enabled or disabled for the thread author. Maybe same about the thread I've replied for.

Alternatively, kinda "my threads" tab would be handy (instead of sorting?), but that would be a real overkill.

I agree, I personally always want it to be checked when I create a new thread. I am getting a little déjà vu here - I feel like we discussed this a long time ago and there was some system change as a result, but I don't remember what it was.

James

Thanks jww1066 - that's exactly what I wanted.

Can I suggest this for a 'most unintuitive user interface competition' do you think?

Because if "updated" were the default, we would see much more bumping of old threads and less flow of new threads, we keep "created" as the default sort; we think that's fine.

I don't want to spam everyone who starts a thread, and I also don't want to add a preference for it, as I don't think it's an important enough issue to warrant space in our preferences. There are not so many users who create so many threads as for this to be a concern for most.

Okay, getting your concern. Then how about making it possible to mark somehow that I _am_ interested to be updated just when creating the post and not a few clicks afterwards? (same when replying to someone's thread)

PS: that's peanuts of course, let's say it's all semi-theoretical and on low priority.

That's a good idea. I'll put it on the list.

thanks :)