How to Subscribe to Forums and Topics

Subscribing to a “Forum” means that you will be notified by email if anyone posts a new “Topic” in the “Forum”. Examples of “Forums” are “Latest News”, “Introduce Yourself”, etc.

Subscribing to a “Topic” (within a “Forum”) means that you will be notified by email if anyone “Posts a Reply” to the “Topic”.

Please be aware that the icons shown at the foot of the page can be confusing:
– A ticked box with the text “Subscribe to Forum/Topic” means that you are currently not subscribed need to click on the box if you wish to subscribe.
– A crossed box with the text “un-subscribe from Forum/Topic” means that you are currently subscribed!

Forum and Topic Subscriptions

1. How do I subscribe to specific forums or topics?
To subscribe to a specific forum, click the “Subscribe forum” link upon entering the forum. To subscribe to a topic, reply to the topic with the subscribe checkbox checked or click the “Subscribe topic” link within the topic itself.

2. How do I remove my subscriptions?
To remove your subscriptions, go to your User Control Panel and follow the links to your subscriptions.

3. How do I check my subscriptions?
Go to “User Control Panel” > “Manage Subscriptions” which will show all the Forums and Topics that you are “Watching”.

Note the following question and answer from the PHpBB Support Forum:

Q:This may be me simply not understanding the native behaviour of how subscriptions work but, I can’t find detailed information on how it works.
So, my problem is a user subscribes to a topic, but, not all updates to the forum/topic result in an email. So – I am not sure if it only emails one time per user that updates that forum… or ?? i.e. if User1 creates a new topic and, posts. It emails. If they post again – does it not email? I am not sure?
I would like it to send an email to subscribed users regardless. I am not sure if there’s a way to get it to do this or, it’s supposed to be doing this but, just isn’t working. I don’t see errors in the log showing email failures.
Any help is appreciated.
I apoligize in advance if i am missing something obvious.

A: The way it works is that it sends one email letting the subscriber know that there has been a change in the topic/forum.
It will not send another email no matter how many new posts there are until the subscriber has visited the board.
Once the subscriber has visited the forum/topic it will then reset and send a new email if there is a new post since the last visit.
This allows the subscriber to know there has been activity but does not spam him with a thousand emails if there is that much activity.

If you subscribe to a forum/topic, it is assumed that once you get an email about a new post, you will visit to see the new post . there is really no need for multiple emails about multiple posts if you are not going to visit to see the first one.