XF 2.3 Notification on follow user...

[TorontoJoe]

Hey gang.... I had selected to follow a few members who's posts I wanted to keep an eye on... I found it odd that they would continue to post and I had no idea. I did some searching and the only thing I think I came up with is that "following" a member doesn't actually generate a notification when they do anything. In fact I think I saw some mention of addons that would allow you to be notified.... but the only question that...... while I think would be so straightforward.

If following a member doesn't generate any notifications on any of their activity... what exactly is its purpose?

Apologies if I'm missing something here that should be painfully obvious....

While we're at it... how does an admin/mod get notifications of a member's posting activity? There needs to be a way to do this without an addon, right?

 

[AndyB]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/problem-user-email.6282/

 

[TorontoJoe]

Wow! @AndyB I'm glad I already have a subscription to your suite. So many useful tools. Thank you!

I'm still very curious as to what the native XF "follow" function is supposed to do... any idea? I'm trying to wrap my head around the notion of "following" someone with no notifications associated with that...

 

[Rene_V]

While we're at it... how does an admin/mod get notifications of a member's posting activity? There needs to be a way to do this without an addon, right?

This is something that isn't done with the in house options of the software a.f.a.i.k. You will need a custom add on for that.