[Subscriptions] System setting to receive email notifications for every new discussion

[IvoPereira]

Hello,

I've been trying out Flarum for my development team discussion boards, and so far it looks awesome.

However it would be great if we could be notified of every post made in the forums through email, as we are not constantly checking the forums.

Is it possible or planned at any future release? If not, I would love to get my hands dirty and create an extension for it.

Thanks

[luceos]

Not sure whether this should be part of core instead of an extension, @flarum/core ?

[tobyzerner]

Part of the Subscriptions extension

[luceos]

@tobscure ha, yes that suits subscriptions perfectly!

@IvoPereira

Is it possible or planned at any future release? If not, I would love to get my hands dirty and create an extension for it.

I would create a PR the core subscriptions extensions, if you accept that challenge 😃

[oscarotero]

👍

[oscarotero]

I really need this feature. Is planed to add a "Automatically follow all new discussions" to the Suscriptions extension?

[kulga]

This can be mitigated somewhat by

• Automatically follow discussions that I reply to - True
• Someone posts in a discussion I'm following - True (for email)

I don't know about a Automatically follow all new discussions though. That would flood the discussions with Following badges which doesn't seem like good design..

Perhaps in the notifications a option for "Someone makes a post"
-- Which would include new discussions and their initial post

[oscarotero]

In my use case, I'd like to use the forum as a replacement for google groups, so I think this feature is important because users are lazy to enter in the forum to search new discussions.

[oscarotero]

I've created a pull request with this feature. flarum/subscriptions#9
Any suggestion is welcome.

[tobyzerner]

@kulga I don't know about a Automatically follow all new discussions though. That would flood the discussions with Following badges which doesn't seem like good design..

I'm thinking this too... @oscarotero your PR looks great from a technical point of view but I'm not sure if that's what we want to do from a design POV. Keen to hear others' thoughts and will think more deeply about it myself when I have a chance, but I suspect Kulga's suggestion for a notifications option for "Someone makes a post" would be a better approach?