Only send one notification until node has been visited.

I was just about to enter a feature request for this same topic. In other sites I have used where I subscribe to hear about updates, I would only be told about an update to a topic once until I visit the site again (or the topic). This way I'm not bombarded with loads of emails every time a change is made, even if I haven't had a chance to visit the site.

I agree. I was recently heavily spammed with comments to a few threads (now resolved) but subscriptions sent out a new notification for each spam message resulting in some users getting 20 or more notifications. Come to think of it, it would be nice if comments that were unpublished by the spam module did not result in a notification until they were approved and published by an admin.

Yeah, this feature would be great to have!

Is this feature going to be added to the 4.7 version or can I use the 4.6 version on 4.7? I'm about to disable the module because I'm getting so many multiple notifications. My site is for a UK-wide club divided into Regions. Each region has its own pages updated by a Regional Editor. If the editor has 20 goes at updating a page because he is not quite sure how to do it, members ger 20 notifications and then write to me to complain!

Yeah, receiving notifications for each editing of a node is a real pain in the neck. :(

I think at least that problem can be solved more easily.

One further point, having re-read the opening Description. Most of my site uses pages with each region having their own taxonomy term. I therefore use subscriptions almost exclusively via what it calls categories. I need it restricted to one notification per category (not thread) until a page in that category is visted.

With credit due to *BacteriaMan*, here's a patch against the latest 4.7 that does what the original poster requests... **only one subscription notification** is sent until the node has been visited [with the user logged in].... Thanks BacMan for the hard work!

[Incidentally... apparently it only works if notifications are set to "immediate"... rather than by cron]

Good luck all! Feel free to review! :-)

And Blessings,
Albert

Could this be an option? I'm working in the opposite direction: to include body text in the message so that people who only want to read a forum need not to visit the site at all. Of course my way works better for low volume forums and I understand both needs, so body text should also be an option, I guess.

I'm working in the opposite direction: to include body text in the message so that people who only want to read a forum need not to visit the site at all.

That would be an excellent addition and, yes, it would need to be an Option. It is already available in Notify so maybe there is some code there that would be helpful.

With credit due to *BacteriaMan*, here's a patch against the latest 4.7 that does what the original poster requests... **only one subscription notification** is sent until the node has been visited [with the user logged in]

Very many thanks ajwwong, but how do I use it? I guess I need to paste all or some of it into the original subscriptions.module file, but where do I put it and do I put every line? Sorry to be so ignorant, but there it is - I am!

When this feature for drupal 5?

Here is the same patch for the drupal 5.x version.

(neither this nor the 4.7.x patch are ready for CVS because it would need to be optional..)

I like the sound of this patch, haven't had a chance to test it out yet though

anything in your watchdog log? i never tried it out, but the patch looks ok to me.

I'm sorry, this would have to start from scratch, because version 5.x-2.0 was started from scratch (now in beta test).