Hey guys,
I was thinking about the Gmail notifier ... Why can't we have are own (better) notifier here at GIDforums ? I meen, we guys can write something at least as good as the Gmail notifier, Can't we ?
Why not write are own notifier and make life easier ?

Think about it,
Kobi Hikri.

What's the GMail notifier do?

Hey, Walt.
The Gmail notifier notifies you about new mail .
In our context, The notifier will inform you of a respond to a thread you wrote in, at "real" time.The notification could contain other information too, such as Responder name,Response subject, ...

Just an idea,
Kobi.

You can more or less do this by subscribing and setting email notification to the highest setting. Of course you have to be subscribed to the thread for this to occur.
(Cranking up gnotify to something crazy like 30 seconds completes the loop)

What could be useful would be if you could subscribe to new posts in a forum. Then you would get a newsgroup type of effect. That's how I keep up with the FLTK.org stuff. Read at your leisure and catagorize with GMail if messages have value.

;-)

Hey Mark, You are on post 444 ;-)

Thats' what I thought. I personally have no opinion on this...

Rather than coding from scratch, what if GIDForums included an RSS feed? Set it up so that all new posts were given a new feed would have the same effect as the GMail Notifier.

I don't know a whole lot RSS (except what I use for my site) and have no idea how it would work for a forum, but I would imagine you could set up a seperate feed for each forum category. That way you could only subscribe to the categories you're interested in, e.g. the C/C++ forum, the Python forum, the Windows Hardware forum, etc.

Just a thought. <shrug>

How about setting up a GMail account strictly for Gidforum subscriptions and then using the GMail notifier to tell you when a reply is posted to one of your threads?

I really can't resist drifting into the overuse, unintended use, abuse arena...

• Set up a GMail account to receive subscribed notices.
• Set up a filter so any messages from "GIDForums Mailer" are forwarded to your primary email that you usually check with GNotify and delete the message.
• Wait until your normal Gnotifier tells you about the forwarded message.

That way you only need one Gnotify for your regularly checked email address.

Why not take it a step further. Create a filter that checks for a "GIDForums Mailer" from your remail account and checks for a specific member name that you want/don't want to be notified for. If it meets the criteria you could archive/delete if you don't want to be notified or leave in the inbox if you do. Now you have a cheapo remail to ignore/be notified setup. Or any combination that you should care to create. GMail's filtering works pretty well for that kind of thing.

O' the possibilities are endless. Why write new software when you can abuse existing software. What were they thinking giving people 50 accounts at a crack.
Or you could...that's enough of that nonsense.



I actually use a simplified method of this as a sp*m fighter. It always stinks when your regular account gets buried in j*nk mail.

EDIT: actually its up to 100 @ 2594 MB. Hoo Faa, an ultra slow disk drive.

If you want to write a GIDForums Notifier because it would be a fun thing to do then by all means, go ahead. Let me know what you need from me and I can work on it from my end.