Have to agree. The lack of feature add-ons to the forum gadget over the years has been pitiful and is making us look for alternative membership management software. Should features proposed 11 or 12 years ago still have to "wait their turn"? Of course not, it shows a stunning dismissal of your existing customers' needs. The forums are exactly what I would expect of software written over a decade ago; they are really devoid of the features users expect from a modern forum.

We always have to carefully balance development of new features with "internal" technological improvements as well as business needs. That's why some features have to wait to get it's turn, even for several years.
I'm sorry for bad experience here, but it is what it is

@katya Tyukina and the rest of Personify staff, why can't this long standing enhancement request be implemented. This is the number one request from our members that they automatically be subscribed since they can easily unsubscribe or update their profile if they don't want the forum notifications.

Personify, why can't this long standing enhancement request be implemented. This is the number one request from our members that they automatically be subscribed since they can easily unsubscribe or update their profile if they don't want the forum notifications.

Incredible how in 10 years, not a single suggestion to the forum gadget has been implemented that people have been begging for. Quite amazing.

Yes, please enable automatic subscription / by admin.

My club president just asked me to provide a facility for members to exchange needs and thoughts during the pandemic, while we are all staying home and our club is shut down. All I could offer is the forum, which as discussed for many years does not fill the need.

Here's what would:

1. Include full text of posts in Immediate forum notification emails.
2. Include a link marked "To reply to this post ..." that goes to the post.
3. Tighten the subject line to feature the topic subject and remove unnecessary words.
4. When a user posts, automatically subscribe them to that topic with frequency Immediate.
5. Default topic subscriptions to Immediate instead of Daily.

Is this something you would be willing to prioritize in the next release, to support your customers and our members at this incredibly stressful time?

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(This repeats my post from the listserv thread https://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8825587-listserv-i-e-ability-to-submit-forum-posts-by-ema . Perhaps this suggestion is bogged down because WA is fixated on a more general listserv capacity. The implementation effort should be modest and I hope it will get more attention as a forums feature.)

I absolutely agree with this suggestion and made it myself many years ago. I am now setting up a WA account for a second organization and getting all the members subscribed takes a huge amount of nagging. And, that was the primary purpose of the site! Please! As long as people can unsubscribe let us at least start them off with the benefit they asked for.

Absolutely necessary for our organization. Without notifications that there is action in the forums, there's literally no discussion. None of our users are familiar enough with the system to opt themselves in on each topic. As an administrator, I would want to default all users into subscribing, and those that wish to unsubscribe can do so.

Have these options mentioned in the Feb. 12, 2016, product managers' post been done to enable admins to be able to force subscription to forums for members? I don't see where they have been done. When will these be done?

nice

Needed for sure

I vote to include Forum subscription fields in the database import and export function for analysis purposes, as others on this thread have suggested.

Also to set them. We have a Board Forum, it would be nice to be able to offload the Board group annually to set the subscriptions.

Has anyone been able to think of a workaround for this?
I'm thinking of using the subscription source tool and subscribing members to the category relevant to them, then copying/pasting what's already in the forum topic to email those subscription sources. This is the only way I can think of it, and it is a lot more work, so I was wondering what other work arounds people have come up with. Even an external forum that shows up on the same page?

A viable interim solution would be to include the forum subscription data in the data export options just as the following is already included:

Subscribed to emails
Subscription source
Opted in
Event announcements
Member emails and newsletters

Then also allow the modified data to be imported back in again.

This would allow the administrator to do bulk updates for members as new forums are added. The user could of course unsubscribe if they wished

I miss the roadmap too... waiting for this had my boss this year looking for a new AMS, I am totally against it but I will be outnumbered upon our next renewal.

There used to be a roadmap that was updated periodically. Could that be revived?

And then anything not on the roadmap would be "This is not in our plans right now."

It would need to be understood that a roadmap is a snapshot, not a promise, and things may move down as well as up.

(Walt - thanks)

Robin - if something is in wishlist, then it's just waiting its turn to get attention from a product management team (me and smoother folks). So far, this has been postponed; no further details that I can provide, including forecasts.

Re "post a WA response within say a week", "For all open wishes – post a status update say every month or 3 weeks". Personally, I see no point in saying same thing over and over again - "this is not in our plans and I have details on future plans". As soon as something gets into analysis, we change status in "Work in progress" and this is the biggest notification we can make.

We're monitoring all the comments for all threads, but not always comment back. Most of comments just add more details into existing items and this helps us with prioritization for the future. Basically, more votes - higher chances for it to be prioritized, but this is not promised, as we have internal business plans as well and a lot of background activities that require resources.

Frankly, I believe with the number of overall suggestions on the wishlist, we're doing pretty good: we collect feedback, we make reasonable progress with it, we communicate. Can be better, I agree, but overall I feel quite good on how we manage the forum here.

Totally agree that there are many good ideas on the wish list forum on many different topics. Fully understand that WA only has so many resources and that all this stuff takes time, effort and $$.

However it should also be noted that many of the comments posted to the wishes are just a request for a status.

These status requests are for any/all of the following reasons:

1. Original suggestion was created by WA ages ago
2. Proposed design (as in this case) posted by WA ages ago
3. Just flat out no responses ever posted by WA

Personally I always feel that updates to these items just go into a great big black hole. Hopefully I am wrong on that but when you never (seldom) see any responses or updates from WA ???

I would really like to see that the folks at WA do the following:

For any wish that has had any update from a customer since the last WA update to the wish - post a WA response within say a week.

For all open wishes - post a status update say every month or 3 weeks.

Yes this does require some additional work (and resources) for WA, but on the other hand it keeps us the users (those who provide the $$$ and make decisions about staying with WA or looking/moving to other products) actually feel that WA does take note of our wishes and that some of our wishes that could effect our decisions are being noticed.

Ideally we also start to see some possible time lines to implementation of the wishes.

Understanding fully of course that sometimes plans and timings can change for all sorts of circumstances.

There are a lot of good ideas out there, and they can't do everything.

I count 13 Wishlist items with more votes than this one. And there are some with fewer votes that probably have more impact.

It's frustrating when we want to run our organization better but need a new feature to do that. All I can say is that our club looks better and runs smoother with less work since we got on Wild Apricot. I'm not happy waiting for new features but it's part of the package.