Problems getting e-mail notifications from this forum?

NC Software · Neal Culiner NC Software, Inc. Visual Basic .NET Forums 3.30.02 STABLE

E-mails such as reply notifications, etc. are sporadic from this forum. I can come back and see there have been replies to threads I've posted in yet I don't get e-mails most of the time. I believe something you have done with this forum has caused a problem with subscription notifications. I run several vBulletin sites and am very well aware of the User CP settings and functionality of this board.

FYI - something ain't workin right here!

P.S. You can also improve the performance of your forum by caching images, I know this is a feature in IIS (Windows), not sure about other web servers. But having to download the images on every visit to this site is unnecessary.

**Jamie Edwards** · 05-03-2008, 11:25 PM

Hi Neal,

Whether or not your browser (re)downloads images is largely a browser/client configuration and behaviour. The images cache fine here, and are only occasionally redownloaded.

As far as I am aware, vBulletin has been configured to send out instant e-mails on topic reply. However, when a reply is made to a topic you have subscribed, you will receive an e-mail. You will then not get notifications about new posts in that topic until you visit the forum / that topic.

Is this consistent with what you are experiencing?

NC Software · 06-03-2008, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Whether or not your browser (re)downloads images is largely a browser/client configuration and behaviour. The images cache fine here, and are only occasionally redownloaded.

Incorrect, if you set the content expiration on your images folder(s) (see attached) it will dramatically improve site performance.

**Jamie Edwards** · 06-03-2008, 10:53 AM

Hi Neal,

This may be so for IIS, but I believe the default configuration of Apache provisions for content expiry. I will look further into it, but as I said the images don't appear to be (re)downloaded for everyone.

NC Software · 06-03-2008, 12:54 PM

I'm providing feedback, using IE7, that your forum site is very slow and you could help alleviate this by caching images (content expiration). I have a 15 MB fiber connection, not a bandwidth issue here.

NC Software · 06-03-2008, 04:00 PM

Now why did I not get a reply notification of this?

craigbrass · 06-03-2008, 04:53 PM

Because vBulletin sucks? lol. I have thread notifications at two other vB based forums and sometimes I get notifications but other times I don't...

NC Software · 06-03-2008, 06:01 PM

Didn't get your reply notification! My vBulletin "stock" forums work fine. When you go adding third party nonsense to it, you break it! This forum appears to be one of those! Can't leave well enough alone, gotta go adding stupid SEO nonsense and other things that just make it worse!

E-mail notifications on THIS forum are broke! vBulletin rocks by the way!

craigbrass · 06-03-2008, 06:06 PM

Actually, that mod is likely causing the quick reply to stop responding at times...

**Jamie Edwards** · 07-03-2008, 10:44 AM

Posts moved, please keep on topic.

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