I like your proposal. This almost kept us from buying Wild Apricot last year. I had advocated for something like this in the past.

Our members are using the forums more and more. They're always calling our admins and asking how to attach a doc or image. This functionality will help drive even more participation!

I agree that it's past time!

I'd be willing to chip in $100 to help move this up in the development cycle. Maybe ping the other people in the forum and see who else feel this is important enough and would do the same. This feature would be very high value to my members.

This would be an awesome feature for my members and high value. Please consider adding this.

I think you're looking for "Managing email subscriptions to forum updates" - https://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8826331-managing-email-subscriptions-to-forum-updates , with the addition of linking a group to a forum.

Administrators should have the ability to set all members and/or specific groups to: subscribe to a forum, unsubscribe to a forum, and set default email frequency. Right now admins can set this individually on the member account but there is not option to do it for all members/groups at once.

I have to echo Aidan Sheridan's sentiment. Well said! It is high time, after two years of discussion, for the features to be implemented. This design is exactly what we need. Our bicycle club is most interested in “IMMEDIATELY” option in particular. Please put it on the Roadmap to happen NOW!

This has been on your roadmap for years and you keep pushing it back despite the fact a significant number of people have been asking for it. Your google doc presentation that you linked to above is from 2014, yet you still don't have this implemented. Since that time you have increased user fees. Enough is enough. Get this feature added.

For our bicycle club, Forum instant notification is essential in informing membership of spur-of-the-moment ride modification and postings. It is very desirable to NOT HAVE TO login to the site to get the latest. A great feature is the option of instant notification at Forum level and NOT thread level. Most ideal feature would provide option of either/or/both.

Problem 1: Forum subscriptions are currently on a 'pull' bases. Each member has to visit a subscription and then subscribe.
Problem 2: Where the nature of the forum dictates that updates should be immediate, admin must hope that users make the right choice
Solution:
FORUM OPTIONS: When a forum is created, add two options: 1. Subscribe members by default -- add the usual options limiting this to all members, or member groups ... 2. Member update options: immediate, daily, weekly. (only allow members to choose from those selected, where one is selected, the user has no options, the selected setting is the default)

Members can still unsubscribe.

Yes! This design is exactly what we need. Please put it on the Roadmap to happen soon!

Hoping for some movement on this "forum " issue. Soon.

When members register they are automatically subscribed to the Forum program so they can receive notifications of any new post. If they decide that they do not want to receive the notifications then they can unsubscribe.

Forum Subscription

I would simply would like to be able to see a list of who / how many have subscribed to the Forum.

In addition to default subscriptions, the admin should also be able to specify default notification frequency. As is, everything defaults to daily which is not always the best choice.

The Forum gadget should have settings for the default notification frequency (immediate, daily, weekly) for subscriptions to (a) the forum and (b) individual posts.

The Member profile will need four : immediate, daily, weekly and default. It would initially always be "default", so that changing the forum default would change any subscribed member unless they had selected something else.

I mentioned this in the Wishlist thread https://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8825587-listserv-i-e-ability-to-submit-forum-posts-by-ema . But these two are related and the design for one should accommodate the other.

Looking forward to this!! Those slides looks amazing and got me really excited. This will be a game changer for our organization and all Wild Apricot customers.

Connect specific member groups to specific forums, so when someone chooses a member group to participate in, they are automatically subscribed to the associated forum for that group (see ticket #3C2-1CA85391-044E).

Sorry, Lucy, no ETA yet. This was in the roadmap, but things have changed. This still in our short list, but I cannot promise dates.

ETA on this? I thought this was on the roadmap for 2015... but I don't see it. please, please, pretty please? membership on our organization is alive with the listserv feature, but is not so active with the Forums...

The design looks great - just what we need!

But, I'm disappointed not to see this on the roadmap for Dec. or Q1. Forums are pretty much lifeless without this feature. Please put it onto the roadmap as soon as possible. thanks!