it basically means that the subscribed site will show up in your subscribed weblogs list. The admins of the weblog also see that you're subscribed on the members page. From there, they can easily give you more permissions and promote you to contributor, content manager or weblog administrator (they can also do that without you being subscribed first, but it's a little bit easier if you are).
(Thinking) Having a "email to subscribers" feature might be useful in some cases, but it's also a feature that would be prone to abuse.
robert
14.06.02, 12:17
i thnk not an "email to subscribers"-feature but an "email-notification"-service built in antville would be nice.
mld
14.06.02, 18:29
So much so that I had a pal of mine code it up. It runs as a cgi on a seperate server. I just inserted it on my page this morning.
I'm trying *real* hard to get him involved in the antville world)
It's a double opt-in - subscribe, and you get an email confirming the subscription, to which you must reply to actually get updates.
The only thing kludgy about it is that since he really had no way to get auto-notification of entries from the antville server, I have to manually trigger it. So there's a completely different form that lives only on the admin skin that triggers the mailing.
I don't know which way would be better, if y'all choose to implement it here. The automagic way risks sending out an email if you've only made a minor change (the present 50 char threshold), which could be annoying if you have a blogger like me that makes frequent small changes.
Soooo, you might want to consider a larger threshold for this purpose, and/or give the admin the option to choose a manual or automatic mailing.
Perhaps a checkbox on the skin for creating/editing entries asking whether or not to send the notification?
hns
it basically means that the subscribed site will show up in your subscribed weblogs list. The admins of the weblog also see that you're subscribed on the members page. From there, they can easily give you more permissions and promote you to contributor, content manager or weblog administrator (they can also do that without you being subscribed first, but it's a little bit easier if you are).
(Thinking) Having a "email to subscribers" feature might be useful in some cases, but it's also a feature that would be prone to abuse.
robert
i thnk not an "email to subscribers"-feature but an "email-notification"-service built in antville would be nice.
mld
So much so that I had a pal of mine code it up. It runs as a cgi on a seperate server. I just inserted it on my page this morning.
http://viastellarum.antville.org
(details about the programmer in question at:
http://viastellarum.antville.org/topics/Techy+Stuff/66162/
I'm trying *real* hard to get him involved in the antville world)
It's a double opt-in - subscribe, and you get an email confirming the subscription, to which you must reply to actually get updates.
The only thing kludgy about it is that since he really had no way to get auto-notification of entries from the antville server, I have to manually trigger it. So there's a completely different form that lives only on the admin skin that triggers the mailing.
I don't know which way would be better, if y'all choose to implement it here. The automagic way risks sending out an email if you've only made a minor change (the present 50 char threshold), which could be annoying if you have a blogger like me that makes frequent small changes.
Soooo, you might want to consider a larger threshold for this purpose, and/or give the admin the option to choose a manual or automatic mailing.
Perhaps a checkbox on the skin for creating/editing entries asking whether or not to send the notification?
marcus