Add-on Thread and Forum Watch Email behavior change Add-On

[tjpeco]

Hello,

I have recently migrated over a forum that has been in operation since 2008 into XF Cloud. Prior to that, it was a mailing list since 1996. The previous operators of the forum (before I took the technical reins) had a piece of software that would essentially email every post make on a "watched" forum to the users who signed up for the mailing list.

Native XenForo thread and forum watch functionality will only email you once that a thread or forum has been updated until the user actually clicks the link in the email to go to the forum. My users hate that. They want the "old school" way of doing things where the forum will email them every update to a watched forum or thread whether they've clicked on a previous thread/forum update or not. Ideally this setting could be optional per use in the "Watch" settings screen.

I did a quick look around the existing add-ons but could not find something that met the requirements. Would anyone be willing to assist me in developing this kind of functionality?

Thank you!

 

[Xon]

Persistent Alerts

This add-on enables you to keep alerting users of responses to threads regardless of the last time they viewed the thread. By default XenForo alerts users of a new reply to a thread they're watching only if they've viewed the thread since the...

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With some minor configuration this paid add-on of mine can cause an email for every update in a watched forum/thread.

I have another add-on which can cause users to be automatically watch forums they can view:

Watched Threads Filtering

XenForo 2 removes the unread view from the watched thread list, but adds filtering in various other places. Watched threads backups When a mass watched threads deletes happen, a backup is created Prompts users to restore if there is an empty...

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Both will require my free "Standard Library " addon to be installed:

Standard Library by Xon

A number of helper utilities designed to ease add-on development, does not have any direct user-facing changes. See README.md for additional details. Uploaded to the resource manager to aid dependency tracking and allow updating without updating...

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[tjpeco]

Persistent Alerts

This add-on enables you to keep alerting users of responses to threads regardless of the last time they viewed the thread. By default XenForo alerts users of a new reply to a thread they're watching only if they've viewed the thread since the...

xenforo.com

With some minor configuration this paid add-on of mine can cause an email for every update in a watched forum/thread.

I have another add-on which can cause users to be automatically watch forums they can view:

Watched Threads Filtering

XenForo 2 removes the unread view from the watched thread list, but adds filtering in various other places. Watched threads backups When a mass watched threads deletes happen, a backup is created Prompts users to restore if there is an empty...

xenforo.com

Both will require my free "Standard Library " addon to be installed:

Standard Library by Xon

A number of helper utilities designed to ease add-on development, does not have any direct user-facing changes. See README.md for additional details. Uploaded to the resource manager to aid dependency tracking and allow updating without updating...

xenforo.com

Perfect - this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.