Update notifications not working in forums on Drupal.org?

By vacilando on 31 Jan 2008 at 15:00 UTC

Although I receive updates on issues discussions, I am not receiving any updates on forum threads I participate in (speaking about forums on this site, Drupal.org).

I looked for settings that would allow that but found none.

I cannot imagine this functionality would be missing - or is that the case?

Comments

>I cannot imagine this

gpk commented 31 January 2008 at 15:15

>I cannot imagine this functionality would be missing
Sorry, you need to imagine harder ;-) The site would need to run one of these modules http://drupal.org/project/comment_notify http://drupal.org/project/notify http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions or similar.

gpk
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don't know if this is true...

gareth_w commented 31 January 2008 at 15:25

...but I read somewhere that this is currently disabled due to the volume of traffic and number of dbqueries needed to do this.

Teh subscriptions module is being rewritten (the test version on my site works great now), but whether that will make it back to drupal.org I don't know.

Hopefully one of the mods/admins can give you the full story (and apologies if I'm way off the mark with this), but I don't think it's possible on this site at the moment.

Gareth

never been implemented

sepeck commented 11 February 2008 at 23:31

There are a variety of historical, security and infrastructure maintenance loads for why.

Historical: In the distant past the few notification modules were not the most well maintained modules
Security: In the past, the options available were not the best written modules from a security perspective
Infrastructure: few different reasons
1. d.o. was a single server and could not have taken the performance impact of the modules in their state,
2. Extra load when d.o. was single server
3. One more module to maintain and upgrade on d.o. when it was time to update the site version. Not enough reliable hands to consistently do this.

Those are the general reasons.

Now, here is my reason for why I like it that way (my personal reason)

There are tools that have been part of Drupal that allow you to do this easily. Visit the site and check your tracker page. I've always liked that. It encourages you to check back on your conversation. Maybe while doing that you will spend some time and help somebody else rather then simply ask for help and not pass on your help and knowledge in return.

-Steven Peck
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-Steven Peck
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It encourages you to check

gpk commented 12 February 2008 at 11:59

It encourages you to check back on your conversation. Maybe while doing that you will spend some time and help somebody else

Getting an email update is even more likely to make me check back on my conversations ... :-P

But I take the points about server loads (I imagine huge volumes of mail would be flying around) and additional modules to maintain etc.

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

Agreed

gareth_w commented 18 February 2008 at 10:09

I'd check back on threads much more frequently if e-mail was implemented.

I know Drupal's forum is not a world-beating application, but this is the one big things that is missing here. It's a shame as it can be done and would go a long way towards proving that Drupal can handle the volume of traffic and be a major site. It must be possible as both phpBB and SMF (along with vB, etc) do this - it just needs a good implementation. Subscriptions is being updated, I've tested it and it seems to work great. As a user, I would love to see some Infrastructure resource applied to the site in this area.

THanks,
Gareth