BuddyPress

Hi guys, great plugin but I’ve got a small bug. I’m subscribed for an email every time someone creates an update or replies to an update in my group. However, when they reply to an update the only message I receive in my inbox is the original update and not the reply.

So if someone writes asks a question and 20 reply I get emailed the same question 20 times and no answers instead of the 20 answers. Kind of annoying if you know what I mean.

@boonebgorges @dwenaus @aekeron

:bump:

Have you verified whether this is a problem with both digests and with immediate notifications?

@boonebgorges Nope, it’s only a problem with digests; immediate notifications are still working fine the way they have for months.

I’ve also notice another glitch in the digests. In all the emails sent because of an original activity update the URL at the bottom of the email is fine. See image: http://screencast.com/t/ODQyMmZlZ . But in all the emails sent because of activity replies the URLs at the bottom of the emails are duds (in addition that the messages are simply copies of the original update and not the actual replies). See image: http://screencast.com/t/MjRiMjQ4Ym

@boonebgorges @dwenaus @aekeron

I upgraded the plugin to 2.7.1 but the problem is still occurring.

buddypress does not provide enough information in the activity feed to allow us to know what the original update was – there needs to be a tertiary_item field added. So our plugin is not able to send emails for update replies. It would be soo much code to go back and find the original. maybe not worth it for now. We need to precent the activity replies from being recorded for the digest.

@dwenaus

I see where you’re coming from but still think people would at least like to know that there was a reply… even if they don’t know what the reply was. Would it be possible to send a simple message saying:

“There has been a reply to the activity update. Please click here?”

interesting idea. I’ll look into that one.

@boonebgorges @dwenaus Did we ever resolve this?

At the bare minimum we should either change the plugin so that no notifications are sent when replying to an activity stream item, or a message saying “There has been a reply to the activity update. Please click here.” should be sent out.

But definitely, we shouldn’t have the current instance of 20 activity replies producing 20 emails sending the original activity update and not the replies. After a while it becomes too spam-like.

@boonebgorges @dwenaus Did we ever resolve this?

At the bare minimum we should either change the plugin so that no notifications are sent when replying to an activity stream item, or a message saying “There has been a reply to the activity update. Please click here.” should be sent out.

But definitely, we shouldn’t have the current instance of 20 activity replies producing 20 emails sending the original activity update and not the replies. After a while it becomes too spam-like.

not yet… if you want to suggest some code, I can include it otherwise it may be a while. (making donations to pay the poor programmer also works!)