"Replied to the thread" alert not working

[Luke B]

I'm no longer receiving alerts or emails when a user replies to a thread I'm participating in. All users are having the same issue. All other notifications are working just fine though.

I went ahead and disabled every add on at the same time and one by one and I'm still not getting an alert. Like I said, its only happening with threads I'm participating in. All other alerts are working properly.
This is the Alert I'm missing:
User replied to the thread Thread Name. There may be more posts after this.

Any ideas?

Thank you all

 

[Jake Bunce]

1) Make sure you are "watching" that thread.

2) Make sure this preference is enabled for your account on your forum:

http://xenforo.com/community/account/alert-preferences

 

[Luke B]

1) Make sure you are "watching" that thread.

2) Make sure this preference is enabled for your account on your forum:

http://xenforo.com/community/account/alert-preferences

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I'm going to feel very silly I'm sure but on the this forum, if I comment on a thread and someone creates a post after mine, I get an "Alert" along the lines of "User replied to the thread Thread Name. There may be more posts after this." I get this message regardless if I select "watch thread" or not. In fact, I've never actually "watched a thread" before. Just commenting on the thread alone gives me updates of thread activity. How do I get this on my forum?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Then you probably have this enabled:

http://xenforo.com/community/account/preferences

 

[Digital Doctor]

I'm going to feel very silly I'm sure but on the this forum, if I comment on a thread and someone creates a post after mine, I get an "Alert" along the lines of "User replied to the thread Thread Name.

 

[Luke B]

Then you probably have this enabled:

http://xenforo.com/community/account/preferences

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I knew I would feel silly

Is there a way to have this selected by default in the CP?

 

[Digital Doctor]

What would be cool would be to ask the user .... on their first reply (or first few replies) would they like an alert if this thread gets another reply ?

Maybe there should be a Watch this thread near the quick reply box (like the larger reply box) !

 

[Luke B]

What would be cool would be to ask the user .... on their first reply (or first few replies) would they like an alert if this thread gets another reply ?

Maybe there should be a Watch this thread near the reply box !

Agreed. You know, I'm pretty darn sure I never have even been to that setting on this site. So how did it get selected?

 

[Luke B]

Okay, I might be going crazy but it sounds like for some of my users that option is selected by default and for others it is not. Am I missing something?

 

[Jake Bunce]

If you want to force that preference on your users then see this post:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/force-watched-thread-without-email.17655/#post-230151

 

[Luke B]

Thank you Jake.

It looks like that was set by default from the very beginning. Its just strange that some users had this option un-checked in there preferences when they first signed up. Strange