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Kevin
Wed 19th Apr '00, 2:27am
Copied and pasted from an e-mail I sent to John:

I would highly recommend in the registration separating "Location" as another option alongside Biography. This would then allow you to have an option to display location under the username in each post just like UBB; all of my users love this feature because it really allows them to get a flair for the diversity of each board immediately... indeed, I consider this an essential feature to really have at least as an option and splitting Location from Biography right now before too many people have converted their UBB userbase and lost that info would be the best thing to do ASAP...

Also "Use E-mail Notification?" in registration is extremely vague; I don't even know what it means.. is it for e-mail to notify you of responses to your posts? If so two things: a) that should be clear b) it should be OFF by default since I think most users don't want it and it's a huge load on our servers to be sending out e-mails everytime a post is made to the thousands of people who could have responses to something they wrote throughout the day..

Kevin

John
Wed 19th Apr '00, 3:55am
Kevin,

Location suggestion: I will include this in the next minor upgrade that I do. I will also include a way to get the location part out of the biography template where it is currently stored.

'Use email notification by default' allows you to specify whether the email notification button is checked by default when you post. The description by email notification is 'emails sent to you whenever someone replies'. If you want to set it off by default, then you can change the template to do so. It is set to on by default, because we figured that sending emails out to people reminded them about the forum and got them to return more frequently. If server load is a problem, then as I said, just disable it by default in the templates. I will add a bit of text into the templates to make it more clear too.

Thanks for the suggestions,

John