Forums that doesn't send notifications to mail?

[Heatman]

One of the features I love so much in forums is when I get a mail whenever someone sends me a DM or even get notifications when someone comment on a thread I'm watching. It helps me come online immediately if it's something urgent.

Forums that are not set this way makes me miss out on DM which might require immediate attention.

What's your take on this forum feature?

 

[Cedric]

It's definitely required to have this as a webmaster. It helps engagement drive to your forum, so you're missing out when you disabled this setting.

 

[Heatman]

It's definitely required to have this as a webmaster. It helps engagement drive to your forum, so you're missing out when you disabled this setting.

If I remembered correctly, one of the forums I used that the feature wasn't enabled is Forumexplorers.com. I made a remark about it but it wasn't enable and I think that's happening with Admin-junkies.com now.

 

[Cedric]

If I remembered correctly, one of the forums I used that the feature wasn't enabled is Forumexplorers.com. I made a remark about it but it wasn't enable and I think that's happening with Admin-junkies.com now.

AJ has problems with their email setup, I never received emails since the new owner.

 

[Heatman]

AJ has problems with their email setup, I never received emails since the new owner.

You're right about that. I think it was a problem that started with the merging because it was happening on Forumexplorers.com before the merge took place and AJ started having the same issue.

 

[Ja sa bong]

As a forum owner, if your email setup isn't enabled to send emails to your members, I wouldn't consider the website owner being serious with his project. It's among the basic things to check out and make sure it's working fine.

 

[Cpvr]

Push notifications is vital these days and if a forum doesn’t have it, then the owner of the community doesn’t care about the engagement about his forum.

It’s highly important nowadays and its a key feature to have enabled.

 

[Dismal_Bliss]

As a forum owner, the default for all new users should be for all notification methods to be ON. Then afterwards they can opt out or make adjustments.

There is one forum that I am on that uses IPS like I do, but they do not have "Follow this topic and notify me of replies" turned on by default when you comment on a thread. I can easily forget about that discussion for weeks when I don't get an email or even a notification when I return to the site. That forum is struggling lately and I think this mistake is part of the problem.

 

[Ja sa bong]

Push notifications is vital these days and if a forum doesn’t have it, then the owner of the community doesn’t care about the engagement about his forum.

It’s highly important nowadays and its a key feature to have enabled.

A forum owner who neglected doing that is truly not serious about how to run his forum because even him will me kept out of the loop as things happens in his forum. He can't be online 24/7 to see everything happening.

 

[Shortie]

This is a forum feature I love and I also like how you can have it enabled on some forums but can also disable it on forums you wouldn't like to be notified about.

There have been many times that I have not checked a specific forum for a while for whatever reason but if I get a notification of a DM, I jump straight there to check it out.

Some forums I know have been having issues with emails bouncing, specifically Gmail emails which can cause a problem for some webmasters.