Implement email alerts for user mentions

[Martok]

This is currently possible using the Tag Me add-on and it is useful to be able to alert people by email that they have been tagged in a post.

In Tag Me there is an option in the ACP to turn this off or on for the site, thus giving the choice to admins as to whether or not to use it. If enabled, users can then choose to enable/disable email alerts individually.

This is something that members of my community, myself included, have found invaluable. It's also a great way of giving AWOL users a nudge to return to the forum without having to compose a Conversation.

Would be great to see it in the core.

 

[Adam Howard]

This is currently possible using the Tag Me add-on and it is useful to be able to alert people by email that they have been tagged in a post.

In Tag Me there is an option in the ACP to turn this off or on for the site, thus giving the choice to admins as to whether or not to use it. If enabled, users can then choose to enable/disable email alerts individually.

This is something that members of my community, myself included, have found invaluable. It's also a great way of giving AWOL users a nudge to return to the forum without having to compose a Conversation.

Would be great to see it in the core.

I'd love to see this option added.

Please & thank you in advance

 

[Digital Doctor]

For those people that love email ... this would definitely be popular.
That being said, the Tag Me addon is so good and so well supported ... it's like it is in the core
It's probably better than being in the core ... because xfrocks is likely to keep it fresher than Xenforo itself !

 

[Martok]

For those people that love email ... this would definitely be popular.
That being said, the Tag Me addon is so good and so well supported ... it's like it is in the core
It's probably better than being in the core ... because xfrocks is likely to keep it fresher than Xenforo itself !

Yes, the Tag Me add-on is indeed good and I've used it for quite some time, before Xenforo introduced tagging to the core. I'm just asking (and others are agreeing) that rather than just implement some of the features of the Tag Me add-on, they add ALL of the feature, namely:

1. email alerts (this suggestion)
2. Tagging on user profile posts
3. Group tagging

 

[ProCom]

Yup, I'd love to see this as an option as well; i.e, option to receive email on tagging.

 

[whynot]

Yup, I'd love to see this as an option as well; i.e, option to receive email on tagging.

Pray not to be a popular poster!

 

[ProCom]

Ya, it would need to have an option to turn it on / off like most other notifications. On another popular forum the members HATED that they were auto-subscribed to topics in which they posted, but on a less-busy forum the members loved it.

Too much activity is definitely a problem I'd like to have on all my forums!

 

[Carla Birch]

Email alerts should be part of the core, many a time I have alerts on xenforo sites I don't view that much, where I been tagged for help or asked something and because I don't view them that much I did not know.

If email alerts was core, I would have knew almost right away, it helps keep people on and viewing your site.

 

[Digital Doctor]

@Carla Birch - ask xfrocks to add it to his Tagging addon.

 

[Martok]

@Carla Birch - ask xfrocks to add it to his Tagging addon.

It's already in his add-on. This thread is about suggesting it should be a core feature.

 

[Denny Crane]

I'd like to see it possible to mention @Username in a post and have @Username sent a notification by email if he's not online. If online, a traditional notification.

If @Username is mentioned 10 times in 15 minutes, he should only get 1 email notification.

 

[Ashley.S.]

+1 for this to become part of the core in the future

 

[Chris D]

I updated the thread title to reflect the recent name change of user tag => user mention in XF 1.5.

 

[_NANO_]

Still isnt possible to get email notifications of mentions without an addon?

 

[Chris D]

Correct

 

[Mouth]

addon

which?

 

[Marvin Herbold]

We are wanting email notifications for tagging as well. Without this most of our users would never know they were tagged, and most of them don't check the site unless they get an email notification. Is this on the road-map?

 

[Donny]

Anything knocking about for this now?

 

[maethlin]

would love to see this - i agree it would be great for engagement

 

[ProCom]

FYI, @Xon has added this to his addon: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/user-mentions-improvements-by-xon.4416/
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/alert-improvements-by-xon.4578/
It alerts on both:

• User Mentions / tags
• User quotes / quoted