Online subscriptions

Question

Are there plans to add back the online subscription feature?
I don't like email notifications.

Answer 1

Hey Mimico,
A very sad Gopha here. Yes, it is Gopha.
For starters, most importantly, we're lumbered with email subscriptions now. For active members such as yourself and I, this is a nightmare, because we consult on upwards of 20-50 threads a day, and often each of these threads contains more than one message. Since each new post has an email alert attached to it, our inboxes are going to be mighty clogged. I've only posted a couple of times on the new Discussions yesterday, and in the space of a few hours, have received 7 email, from 2 threads.
Online Subscriptions were so much better - because, as I'm sure you're aware, hitting Check Subscriptions took you to each and every post no matter what thread, without clogging inboxes, and without needing to dredge up the link from emails. The trouble now is that is appears once a thread has been visited, everything in there appears to be read. So if have 10 new posts in a thread, and visit that thread once to reply to 2 posts, the others appear to have been visited/read if I'm not mistaken, so upon returning, checking the status of a thread shows no new posts, even though you'd not read or addressed the other outstanding posts. (if that makes sense).
Avatars - yes, well it's not possible to upload any kind of custom avatars, and we have no Levelling at all. Yesterday, you appeared as a Guest user on one of our threads, and I couldn't figure out why. Avatars were meant to have been transferred across...? The Orange avatar I've chosen is the closest I could find to the orange-furred fellow that I used to have and besides, Gopha likes oranges. Shame they have no profiterole avatars...
Anyways, the other major gripe is that posting is messed up. I posted two things yesterday, got blank screens off both, and then when checking 10 mins later, found that they'd miraculously appeared.
Irritatingly, this new interface I find to be terribly cluttered. There are too many unexplained icons that are going to fox new users and non-regulars...
If I had a veto vote, I'd say bring back the old Discussions, and parallel in the new one for a trial period. Not like this.
What's this I hear about "most reputable posters?" - and where's the voting gone? And the reputations. And all my other posts? Grr. Gotta reset all my old subscriptions and look at the backlog of posts from folks.
Gopha ain't a happy furball!
Cheers for now sir.