Send an alert and/or email on a member's birthday

[Paul B]

OK, this is a totally pointless "feature" I agree, but it might just add a little personal touch if a member receives a "Happy Birthday" alert on their birthday

And/or an email.

A lot of forums list members' birthdays at the bottom of forum home but as we all know, XenForo is all about less is more, so this would just be a way of acknowledging those members who have gone to the effort of entering their full birth date in their profile, without bloating the forum home page.

Besides, everyone likes being wished "Happy Birthday", even if it is via an automated script

Don't forget to like vote for this post if you agree

 

[Rhody]

I have been using an add-on for this for years. I have it limited to only the past 10 years, but is nice because it identifies emails/accounts that are no longer valid. (if the email bounces, it is automatically adjusted) I also have it set to only send them to folks who have had at least 3 posts in the past.

Birthday email

Mar 13, 2019

Automatically sends birthday emails to your members.

• AndyB
• Add-ons [2.x]

 

[Suzanne O]

This needs to be implemented.
@Chris D can we please have this in the next version release?

 

[Digital Doctor]

or celebrate the day they joined.

Reddit's "CAKE DAY"

 

[Wildcat Media]

or celebrate the day they joined.

Reddit's "CAKE DAY"

That would be easy to do--adding a cake slice to the postbit. If I still had development skills, I'd tackle it.

(There's an unmaintained version for 2.0 but I'm not going there...and it's for registration date, not birthday, although I'm sure it could be modified.)

 

[Digital Doctor]

and it's for registration date, not birthday,

registration date is better.

I encourage people NOT to use their real birthday for every online forum asking for their birthday.

 

[Digital Doctor]

That would be easy to do--adding a cake slice to the postbit.

great idea.

and the day the logon ... ON or after their cake day.... have a little visual celebration.

something like when you text someone on an iphone with the phrase "Happy New year" there is a visual display to go with it.

 

[MySiteGuy]

To me, birthday information in a database is simply more information a hacker can use to social engineer your identity, or obtain credit using your good name.

And publishing it seems to be an idea that's not been thought out. I would be very angry if a board required it, and defaulted to displaying it.

 

[Rhody]

It would be nice if someone came up with a CAKE DAY add on that works like this one. I would probably switch, too, especially if it told them how many years they have been registered. Some of our members go back to the late 1990s.

 

[Wildcat Media]

registration date is better.

I encourage people NOT to use their real birthday for every online forum asking for their birthday.

Registration date is visible in the member card, so it's already known. And I don't think that's worth celebrating, not like a person's birthday. Although I could do both and call it Anniversary Day or Champagne Day, with the emoji.

It's up to members if they want to use their birthday publicly or not, so it's their risk to take if they decide to display their birthday. (Especially if we use only the month and day, not the year, which I would consider hiding in the templates along with a member's age). And not many are going to connect a username like CorvetteGuy or YellowSub to someone's personal details.

We do use the Notices system to give out various wishes to members, which only they can see. So at least we do something. A "cake day" with a person's birthday just personalizes the forum a little bit.

 

[stromb0li]

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/happy-birthday-emails.9628/