Proposed design was posted over 2 years ago. When is it likely to be implemented?

Wonder if anyone from the WA team actually reads these posts and will respond.

When is this likely to happen please?

When members join a group that has an associated forum, it would be ideal if they were auto-subscribed to the forum.

Is it possible to automatically enable forum subscriptions when members join a forum? It's too easy to miss replies and new content right now.

We now have another need for this feature.

Up until now, our administrative group could communicate with our club just by sending an email to our (non-WA) mailing list. But that is becoming unusable due to more stringent email validation practices.

Trying to get them to use the WA email system will be difficult. It is a multi-step process. The UI, particularly the text editing, is quirky. They don't need all the formatting - they just want to send an email.

If we could subscribe all our members to a forum, we could give our administrative group access to the forum page. This would give them a much simpler UI for just sending out a message.

No one will actually read this forum - it will just be a vehicle for sending emails to our club.

Would like to make subscribing to forums as easy as possible to our members. If there was a default subscription for members option, that would be extremely useful. At least some way to assist members in signing up for forums. The less work they do, the more likely they will return.

Please, please, please add this function. We have less than a third of our base subscribed to forum updates as people just forget to do it and our members are missing essential community news as a result.

It feels like you are so close to allowing this option? Any news on the proposed release?

1. Allow for admin setup to default to subscribed to all as an option.
2. Allow the forum system to interface with Tapatalk, or build forum access into the new member app.
3. Allow admin to global change notification settings for forum updates.

What is the update on this? Will admin be able to subscribe members to forums in the near future?

Can anyone suggest a 3rd party forum that can be embedded?

After struggling with WA forums, I've decided that the best route is to embed a more robust forum option. I can make it privite and I can tell who is subscribed and who isn't. Plus the display and emails are beautiful! https://www.websitetoolbox.com

The google doc solution above is promising but doesn't seem to be live. Nor does it deal with the issue for administrators to be able to determine how many members have subscribed to a forum. When will this be live?

I need a way to subscribe a group to a forum, rather than ask everyone to opt-in.

This is one of my biggest headaches. Many of our members simply do not understand the forum functions and therefore do not set up the immediate forum notification they desire. We have to contact them individually and lead them through the set up process. (We already have help emails on how to do this, but 50% of our membership are simply not savvy with forums and struggle with setting this up)

We are a large bicycle club with many ride leaders (without Admin rights due to WA admin account # limitations) . Forums are the only way we have to send event cancellations out to members. If a member does not get a notification, they may have traveled up to 2 hours only to find out that it has been cancelled.

Admin needs the ability to set this up for members and to set forum notifications as a default when adding a new member.

I am a bit confused as to the status of this. On February 4th, Admin commented that this is not being looked into, and on Feb 12 in the previous year Admin showed a link to the redesign of this functional area.

This is very important to us. I was sad to see that it was not a part of the latest update. Have changes in this area been shelved?

This is not yet something we’re looking into.

This is also very important to our organization. When will this be available, please?

The features shown in the Powerpoint are exactly what we need.

We are going to start looking for another provider if we are not able to get a commitment to delivering this feature as this development was proposed almost 3 years ago, but not implemented. Is there a roadmap update on this available?

Our organization really needs this functionality and the design looks great! Plenty of time has passed for collecting comments. Please put this on the Roadmap for implementation.

This is a great proposal! When will it get into the roadmap? We have a demographic of users who are not the most tech-savvy, so being able to do this by the admin is needed.

Thanks!