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Originally Posted by matauri
It may be an annoyance, but just think of the benefits guys! With the amount of discussions you are involved in around the forums on the net, you would be spending all your day reading & replying to them, and your email boxes would be full.
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I personally think the present setup is a pain.
phpBB was designed to set this option both globally and on a topic by topic basis. If you do not want your box filling up, then it is an easy Profile option change. If you do not want a particular topic filling up your box, then again it is an easy click on a link to "unsubscribe" from that thread.
As it stands right now, all those options have been stripped from your control over them and choosing whether or not you want the notifications. It is basically setting the default of NO WATCH for you.
Personally I would like to have it put back to the way it was originally set up. If I want to participate in a thread and keep up to date on new posts, and reply in return...I have to continually click the Watch Topic to continue receiving those notifications.
The pages here load so slowly in the first place and I am on DSL to boot. But after I post, I have to go back into the thread and find that button to click on to continue watching the topic. When I first noticed this happening, I was beginning to wonder if it was actually setting at all. So I was going back (yet one more time) to make sure it was set.
I see no benefit in this what so ever, nor do I see a silver lining....there is a dark cloud there though and I can see it.