Talk:Forum notifications as messages
Default behaviour and forum notification message logic
Hi Andrew, as mentioned in our dev chat, I think the default behaviour should be as for 1.9 i.e. forum subscription = email copies and no forum notification messages at all, messaging = personal messages only.
Regarding how things are happening now on moodle.org, there are two things I don't understand:
- Notifications of forum posts made by me appear as messages between another user (as described in MDLSITE-1058). Why, and how is the other user determined?
- A test user not enrolled in any forums receives messages which are notifications of forum posts made by other users. Why?
Thanks for any light you can shed on these things. --Helen Foster 15:45, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Differentiate messages from notifications
This definitely sounds like the right thing to do, for me. A message and a notification are totally different things; notification is telling me about something somewhere else (such as a forum post or that my quiz was marked or whatever), whereas a message is something in itself.
Ideally, the message system would be separate, but would itself use the notification system to tell you that you have a new message...! Failing that, the 'this is an actual message' flag idea on the main page sounds like the right one.
Just IMO.
To be honest I am not entirely sure that a forum email is a notification either but it's at least close.
Will this also address the headers issue (so forum can send forum id header) or was that fixed somewhere else...
Sam marshall 09:13, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
