Allow users to subscribe without posting a comment

I second the request for this. Many (registered) folks may want to subscribe without actually having to post a comment. The workaround is the one word postings we see in the drupal forums like "subscribing"; but it would be nice to avoid that workaround.

just wondering if this particular feature request could make use of this module for UUID: http://drupal.org/project/uuid (to alleviate some of the burden of you having to process each anonymous 'subscribe without comment' request easier? no idea if it makes sense, but seems interesting)

I think this would be useful. I find myself hitting submit before realizing I wanted to subscribe to the comment or node.

subscribing

;)

That is not supercritical, but definitely useful -> subscribing.

Well, I thought I addressed it in my comment - apparently I was not clear enough.
I do not think that this particular entry is critical or even important, it may very well be not valuable enough considering the amount of technical work needed.

So, I am not ready to "push" for this request. However, if somebody makes it happen, I will definitely use this functionality. It is of low, but clearly positive value for me.

Subscribing

+1 subscribe http://3281d.com/2009/03/27/death-to-subscribe-comments :-)

and when it's implemented, I hope it ( or something like it) is added here too :)

+1

sub

I think this is a huge feature. Think of how much un-needed garbage content gets created everyday because people have to post something in order to subscribe.

By implementing this feature you would be doing a great service to the internet and its users!

Hi Greg,

I see the dilemma, where do we draw the line? This use case fits the title, "Comment Notify", perfectly. It notifies users, authenticated and anonymous, of new comments. If it weren't a code reworking, then from a user perspective I would say definitely, however, I am not a coder (yet) so maybe it isn't the best of ideas.

Maybe it would be better suited to be called "Comment Notify Lite."

Cheers,

Elijah

+1

subscribe

I know everybody wants to keep this module light and simple and out of the "notifications/subscriptions territory". Those modules can do a lot of things but they just can't do anonymous.
So if this is the price we have to pay for a complete anonymous notification solution I say +1.
I wish I could help with coding, I think this is an important feature, especially for d.o. but for my site also.
Watcher does half the job but don't give me the checkbox for those who do post a comment.
Personally I would love to see a flag/rules feature to (automatically?) flag nodes I participated on and (optionally) flag nodes I'm interested on - without my participation - so I will be notified when new comments are published.

A similar feature, allowing users to subscribe to alerts from every comment on every thread sitewide, might also fit in here. Granted, that's going the way of bigger modules like Subscriptions and Notifications. In any case, subscribing.

+1
This is an important feature. Otherwise people fill the forum with "Subscribe" or "Unsubscribe" posts.

This might be a point where we have to draw the line and say "this light-weight module just adds the ability to get notifications if you post a comment."

@greggles So did you draw the line there, and if so, are you working on adding that particular feature (Subscribe to notifications of further comments on a node that has already been commented on)? I'd be glad to help review a patch if someone wants to put one together.

irony... subscribing ;)

Being able to anonymously subscribe to comments without having to also make a comment would be an excellent addition to this module.

The cost of the additional code/complexity definitely outweighs users having to create a "subscribe" comment as it is now.

FLAG-Based Solution Proposal: using flag module to either subscribe to all comments on a node (Node Flag) OR subscribe to all replies to a comment (Comment Flag) would be great. This would be done by setting up actions for comment notify that can be applied with flag module & other modules (such as rules).

Before I even read #28 I was thinking the same thing. With exposure to flags and rules, it seems like you could do a lot by letting those modules do the logistics without having to introduce a lot of bloat. For that matter could it be an additional sub module? That way people that like to keep things simple could just not use or not turn it on.

...minor title edit to clarify that we intent to implement a means of unsubscribing as well.

Sorry Greg/people. I was under the impression I was posting in this core issue: #34496: [meta] Add Flag module to allow users to subscribe/unsubscribe without posting a comment

Wrong project queue - my bad :|

This patch creates a new table comment_notify_node to store the association between users and nodes they subscribed to. A link to subscribe is also added the node links. this patch is very much WIP.

As answer to #25, maybe we should look in something like this. I'd gladly pitch in to get this functionality.

/subscribing

subscribing :)

Subscribe!

#38 You no longer have to comment here to subscribe, you can use the "Follow" button in the top right

any idea how drupal.org is specifically doing this?

@#40 Check out http://drupal.org/node/1306444

...it's achieved by using the Project, Project issue tracking & Flag modules and some custom code I guess.

Was patch from #33 ever committed? Can users now subscribe without commenting?

The schema in #33 needs to be updated to have both nid and uid as primary key. I don't have time to update the patch, but here is the diff for comment_notify.install:

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ function comment_notify_schema() {
         'default' => 0,
         'disp-width' => '11'),
     ),
-    'primary key' => array('nid'),
+    'primary key' => array('nid', 'uid'),
     'indexes' => array(
       'notify_hash' => array('notify_hash')),
   );

I won't have time to work on this issue further so someone else should push it forward.