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   Alex McG (Member)

   Posted 3 years ago

   I'm with you; private messaging is a key feature to have.

   Myth... Magic... Midterms...
   Children of the First
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   Matthew Scharley (Member)

   Posted 3 years ago

   It does seem like an odd oversight on the part of the bbpress crew. Then again, I'm fairly sure that it's still in prerelease, or they only just released the first version or something similar, so maybe it's something they'll implement in a future release...

   Or maybe we could strongarm Chris into doing it for them.

   Arcana Dium - A modern fantasy written by yours truly.
   I'm a leaf on the wind, watch me soar.
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   Chris Poirier (Moderator)

   Posted 3 years ago

   Uh, no. :-P

   I don't think we'll be implementing anything major like that until bbPress goes 1.0. Stuff tends to break during upgrades of prerelease software, so the fewer plugins we have, the happier I am.

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   Drew Daniels (Moderator)

   Posted 3 years ago

   Damn... Shot down again...

   I'm a skill-less teenaged hack with an Angel fanfic... Or so I've been told.
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   Grace McDermott (Moderator)

   Posted 3 years ago

   You could always put your email address in your siggy, or just have it somewhere obvious on your site (as this is where clicking your avatar takes you...).

   http://www.requirecookie.com
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   Alex McG (Member)

   Posted 3 years ago

   Genius!

   Myth... Magic... Midterms...
   Children of the First
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   MeiLin Miranda (Member)

   Posted 3 years ago

   I'm going through headaches with PMing on my site. The Drupal team is taking its time upgrading the PM module to 6.x. Who do they think they are, volunteers? Oh wait...

   "An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom"
   http://www.meilinmiranda.com/
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   Flak (Member)

   Posted 3 years ago

   Aaah, the pains of working with software that is in constant flux...

   This is why I stubbornly ran phpBB 2.0 for years without upgrading a single time.

   dotq | dotq forums | night switch
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   Kyt Dotson (Member)

   Posted 3 years ago

   Same here. I'm still running phpBB 2.0. I really should upgrade to 3.0; but then I'll have to actually fix all of my plugins and homebrew goodness.

   http://www.blackhatmagick.com
   BLACK HAT MAGICK vol 2: TANGO & CACHE - Not your ordinary detective agency
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    Flak (Member)

    Posted 3 years ago

    Make sure you want to do it before you do... I lost a lot of functionality switching to 3.X in the form of [MOD simply doesn't exist for 3.0].

    dotq | dotq forums | night switch
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    Matthew Scharley (Member)

    Posted 3 years ago

    While we're on the topic of missing features, here's one I'd like to see... Automatic subscription (favouriting) of threads you post to.

    Ah well...

    PS. Yes, I'm lazy, but I do check my email!

    Arcana Dium - A modern fantasy written by yours truly.
    I'm a leaf on the wind, watch me soar.
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    Flak (Member)

    Posted 3 years ago

    Spotty, are you down on RSS? Because I find that the "Recent Posts" feed does wonders for my needs, which I would describe as the same as yours.

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    Chris Poirier (Moderator)

    Posted 3 years ago

    There's a general RSS feed for everything here: feed://forums.webfictionguide.com/rss/

    There's also a topic-specific feed just above the reply box.

    Hopefully one of those two will meet your needs.

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    Matthew Scharley (Member)

    Posted 3 years ago

    I have the same problem with thread-specific feeds as I do with favouriting, ie, having to click the link on every one I want to follow. Maybe I'm just being lazy, but I'm a very forgetful guy too :P

    The general RSS feed though, hmmm... Maybe, thanks for pointing that out Chris.

    Arcana Dium - A modern fantasy written by yours truly.
    I'm a leaf on the wind, watch me soar.