Has anyone thought of disabling the email notification feature? I don’t know how much this feature is used, but it has the potential to really hog the bandwidth of the server’s net connection. Did we have this feature in the earlier version of vBulletin?
BTW, is there any way to turn off the notifications for a thread? It seems to me that this might be useful if you lose interest in the thread or it turns into a really long thread and you don’t want all that email.
You’d think that the e-mail notification would hog the bandwidth or tax the server, but according to the vBulletin guys it adds an insigificant amount of effort to the whole process.
Surprisingly, generating that drop-down list of Forums (the “Forumjump” item) does take a large amount of effort, and in Version 2.2.6 they’ve added a feature to stop generating it if the server is being heavily loaded.
You can turn off notifications in the User CP (first in the row of buttons at top if you don’t know where to find it); scroll down to the Subscribed Threads, and it will show all the threads you’ve requested notification for, and you can unsubscribe there.
If it’s really a server/bandwidth hog, maybe they should just disable that feature altogether. I never use it. I don’t jump around a lot between forums and when I do, it’s just as easy to hit back to do so.
[sub]Now watch as six or eight people jump on my case because they can’t live without that feature…[/sub]