Is there anything like this for vBulletin where they receive an email of latest topics to keep all the members coming back?
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You could set up an RSS feed in the RSS Feed Manager in AdminCP to fetch a news feed every X hours and have them automatically posted to a particular channel on your forum. All users subscribed to that channel would receive notifications like they would for a regular post.Helpful? Donate. Thanks!
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That seems very complex and tedious to get working and site owner would have to count on users subscribing to the forum in the first place.
Seems to work much easier with XenForo by default where it sends an email to all members and includes an unsubscription link at the bottom of the email, so if they are not interested they can simply unsubscribe.
I am starting to think about switching from vB5 to XenForo because vBulletin is too behind on such basic things like this which help remind members about your site and to engage with the content. vB are still yet to add those php hooks you mentioned that were needed for the mod I needed too. Basically, very limited with what I can do with vBulletin.HostXNow - UK Web Hosting
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vB5 works on the "opt in" strategy rather than "opt out". Both have advantages and disadvantages. You may get more subscribers if you do an "opt out" but you might also get more annoyed users.Helpful? Donate. Thanks!
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But if a member signs up to a forum then I do not see the problem with it being "opt in" by default. Could just put a note during registration with a checkbox with "Subscribe to weekly news from our forum" and have the checkbox checked by default. One email per week only about the latest/popular topics would not annoy me. It is a good way to remind members to check newer content. It is a forum after all.
Seems to me vBulletin think average users know how to "subscribe" to a forum or get such mails which is not right. It should be an option during registration, IMO. Otherwise, it is like advertising a product which they see, signup and buy the product, but then they forgot about the brand months later because they have no reminders about the brands other products, etc.HostXNow - UK Web Hosting
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vB has daily/weekly digest scheduled task. You can use it or create a new scheduled task off it that sends email to users for new posts in a specific forum even without subscription.Helpful? Donate. Thanks!
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Originally posted by webgeek247 View PostIs this something you could come up with? I am not a coder (if I was I would be a millionaire with the ideas I have i.e move over to the owner of FB lol )
Originally posted by glennrocksvb View PostYou could set up an RSS feed in the RSS Feed Manager in AdminCP to fetch a news feed every X hours and have them automatically posted to a particular channel on your forum. All users subscribed to that channel would receive notifications like they would for a regular post.
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I'll take a look at what it would take to do a custom weekly digest scheduled task.Helpful? Donate. Thanks!
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Originally posted by rnedelkow View PostEven this method seems like it would work for me.
Or if you google it, you would find tons of resources on it.Helpful? Donate. Thanks!
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Originally posted by webgeek247 View PostCan select the thread by nodeid or something like that.
Code:"specific": [1,2,3,4]
For more information on all the available options in Search JSON, see article below:
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I'm trying to import blogs from a feed so I tried the following:- New Navigation link for Blogs - Title: Blogs, URL: /blogs
- Add New RSS Feed - URL of Feed = http://www.netsuiteblogs.com/Rss.aspx?ContentID=4180246
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Seems to work after while when I place the feed in the Articles channel. I'd really like to have the feed display blogs under the Blogs channel since they are blogs, and let members subscribe to the rss.
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Create a blog channel and put the feed there. You don't have to change the blog navigation menu URL. Going to /blogs should display all the blog posts for any channel.
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Thanks Glenn. I set it up now and will wait for the blogs to start posting to the new channel. Just curious, we have a couple of blogs posted per day with large photos sometimes. Do you think this will substantially increase the database size or server performance in the long run?
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Yes it will increase database size. You can move the attachment storage from database to file system.
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Reply to Topic Starter Ribbon for vBCloudby glennrocksvbThanks for reporting. I'll bookmark this post and check the issue.04-22-2024, 06:40 PM
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