Re: New Registration - EMail Default Option
Reply #2 – September 25, 2021, 05:54:59 am
The reason such things have been talked down for the last decade both here and on the progenitor forum to this one: this is likely to have consequences. Cheaper hosting options have limits on the number of emails that can go out per site - I don’t know if anyone is still as low as 240 per day but I hate certainly seen it be that low in the past. And that’s all emails from the site - email approval, forgot password etc. And of course, higher rates of email going out increases the chance that the sending server can be blacklisted for “spam”. I also submit that on even a modestly busy forum, an email per post is actually rather aggravating, based on my experience of having been on forums that did do this.
Re: New Registration - EMail Default Option
Reply #7 – September 27, 2021, 05:49:20 pm
The hooks to do what you’re looking for already exist I think. So it should be a case of creating an addon to allow that functionality. Arantor raises valid points about emails etc although I don’t think I’ve had as bad an experience as he has with regards to mail servers, but then I’ve also ran multiple ones for corporations and had issues that come with that providing you control it, they’re not too bad.
Re: New Registration - EMail Default Option
Reply #9 – January 21, 2022, 12:03:33 pm
Sometimes solutions are so simple they completely escape consideration... Recapping my dilemma.. Users are creating accounts, but failing to set email preferences (most are coming from an email distribution list). Not getting any forum traffic in email as they are used to getting, the forum is soon out of sight/out of mind, which leads to a stagnant forum. Objective (if the forum can't be set to automagically opt-in a new account to receive email by default), is to make it obvious and easy to enable email rather than nested deep in the user's profile settings. EMail button on the main menu? How about something even easier, no code-fiddling... Create a news banner. "Sign Up For email - click here!: "https://yoursite.com/forum_path /index.php?action=profile;area=notification; " Yes, the forum knows what user is clicking the link and brings up their own notifications page, so the trailing "..;user=x" isn't necessary (and if the user isn't signed in, it just brings up the sign-in page) I still think an email default option for new users in admin would be more elegant, but this solves this issue as well. (And this approach can work for other forum features one might want to highlight or emphasize for new users - or added features - also..)
Re: New Registration - EMail Default Option
Reply #10 – January 21, 2022, 12:19:19 pm
You can modify the user settings on registration via a hook to enable that setting. If you weren’t aware. Edit: just noticed I already said that. So apologies.