Subscribing To Categories as a Member

Rainman

It would appear that Members can't subscribe to categories and only Administrators can. Is there a way to change permissions for category subscriptions so that Members can subscribe to categories?

I'm using 2.2.

x00

2.2 is alpha, and therefore not supported. Why are you using 2.2?

hgtonight

You are looking for the Advanced Notifications permission.

Give that to Roles you want to have it.

Rainman

@x00‌ Good question. I don't have the answer to that since I do not manage the site.

peregrine

@Rainman said:
x00‌ Good question. I don't have the answer to that since I do not manage the site.

@Rainman you have better access to the manager of the site to ask that question then any of us, one would presume,

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/222631/#Comment_222631

Rainman

@hgtonight‌ Thanks! I didn't think to look at the rolls.

peregrine

The problem I see with subscription by mail for posts is this.

if you include the body of the message in the e-mail.

the users often neglect to see the edited comment that may be more updated or have totally different info in the edited comment. So, yes it can alert people to new messages, but it can also cause some people who are not attuned to rescan messages that may be edited.

e.g. I comment on a message. (an extreme case, but just to point out relying on e-mail)

that says "hi"

users gets an email with the body of message and just ignores it. never coming to forum to respond.

but if the user then edited that same comment to say

"emergency I need you"

the person would never know, if they were relying on the e-mail body.

from what I've seen on this forum even new forum administrators may not realize a comment is edited and provide different or added information.

but then again you say i haven't set my email to display message just a link.

same thing happens.

comment triggers link to e-mail recipients with link to message.

they read message.

5 minutes later comment is edited.

perhaps never to be read again by the person who might be most interested in the message.

point being e-mail may actually detract from user participation in forum, and/or might cause "unknowing users" not to see "most current information",