Curious: notifications?

[joeu2004]

I am curious: when a reply is posted to a thread (in the Excel subforum):
1. Who receives a real-time notification (pop-up)?
2. Who receives a notification alert (upper-right)?

The answer might be the same for both questions; just covering all bases.

There are two ways to post a reply; refer to the image below.

When I click the red-circled Reply, I presume that the author of the post replied to gets a real-time notification and/or alert. Right? What about the author of the thread, if different?

But when I click the blue-circled Post Reply at the bottom, who receives real-time notifications and alerts? The author of the thread? All(!) contributors of postings in the thread? No none?

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Aside.... I think I observed that Insert Quotes is not available when we click the red-circled Reply. Right?

After that feature was explained to me, I have come to appreciate it very much.

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[smozgur]

The answer might be the same for both questions

Yes.

It depends on how the members set their email and notification preferences.

Email notification options:

Notification options: Alert and Push.

All the actions listed above trigger a notification. It doesn't matter which Reply button/link you click.

Also, when a member chooses to watch a thread, even they didn't post anything in the thread, it is still a kind of interaction, and they receive the notifications as an alert, or via email based on their preferences.

You can also stop watching a particular thread by clicking on the Unwatch button even you replied to that thread, or even you started the thread.

The biggest difference from the old forum software we used before, the Push notifications. The rest is mostly the generic "forum notification" logic.

Basically, you never know if someone receives a notification, or not since it is a user preference.

Regarding the Insert Quotes: If you previously marked some content by using the "+ Quote" button (which means you have saved items in your Quote list), then you will see the "Insert Quotes" button no matter which Reply button you click.

 

[joeu2004]

Thanks. I'll need time to digest all that. But I'm sure it answers all of my questions.