joebaggg

why do my subscriptions slowly keep vanishing..... they were there yesterday now theyr gone... this isnt the first time its happened. what gives ?

Lomag

Subscriptions expire after a certain amount of time if the thread has had no activity, I think that's a week time schedule. Or are all of them dissapearing?

joebaggg

not all of them, id say a week sounds about right. is there any way to shut that off? a week isnt long enough IMO

Lomag

It is a global option so I don't want to change it. But, if a thread has had no activity for a week it probably won't have anything else added to it afterwards.

joebaggg

Well that is true however I saved quite a few pages for references. Is there another way to do that besides using my browser favorites? I would think most people would rather control which subscriptions get deleted or stay on there. Again that's just my opinion.

Lomag

Absolutely correct! I think the board had this enabled because lots of members subscribe to topics unknowingly then they receive lots of emails from the board and then I receive complaint emails that the board is flooding their mail box. IMO this should be a user configurable setting with the default to be ON after a certain period but allowing users to change it to whatever value they like. Unfortunately, I don't see any such option in the users control panel. The global setting on the board was set to auto-delete inactive subscriptions after 5 days. I've gone ahead and set this to 0 effectively disabling the auto-deletion of subscriptions. Let me know if that works!

joebaggg

wow thanks! i think that will work out better, i wonder what others on the forum think?

thanks lomag! that helps alot


re-donation sent
...now if i could only find all my subscriptions again

Rudy

I agree that subscriptions should be controlled by the end-user, not by the board. Thanks Lomag!

joebagg, if you have old email notifications of your prior subscriptions, you may be able to find them using whatever links they contain...

joebaggg

ohhh good idea thank you!