Subscribe?
9OK, so I’ve been on a lot lately, thanks to the Meh-rathon and the riveting story of a boy, @brainmist, and his wayward alien box, Cooler O’Noods.
Anyway, I just noticed an option at the bottom of the OP entry of each thread called “Subscribe”.
What is this subscribe?
Is it new?
Why would I want to subscribe?
What would it do for me that not subscribing isn’t doing?
Is there a special “Subscribers only” club?
Do you have meetings? A special handshake?
Have I been here 18 months and simply never seen it before?
Does this mean I am going blind?
What are my prospects?
Is it a tumor?
Should we name it?
I think I’ll call it Bob and imagine he’s like Bob Ross
Why am I obsessing about this?
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I don’t think it is an option on mobile phones.
I don’t see it
Am I missing it?
Maybe it is not there.
I am so confused.
@tinamarie1974 Maybe it’s not on the mobile version…
This is what I am talking about (and I’m REALLY glad that I’m not the only one who hasn’t seen it before!)
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG I’m on my phone and I don’t see it either.
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG on mobile it’s just an envelope.
If you subscribe to a topic you will get emailed anytime there is activity in the topic.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG I’m on my PC using Waterfox and I don’t see it. So there.
@heartny @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG We aren’t serving anything different to any browser. You subscribe to an entire topic, so the subscribe (or just envelope on mobile as @Ignorant said) action is only on the very first post of a topic. If you are viewing topics without subscribe buttons, I would be interested in links and browser details.
@heartny @Ignorant @mschuette @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG Oh, on my iPhone I do see a tiny envelope; it just doesn’t say “subscribe” next to it. Thanks. I never knew that was an option.
@heartny @Ignorant @Kyeh @mschuette @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG Android using Chrome shows the envelope and “subscribe”
@callow only on desktop mode for me.
@ybmuG well Ill be dammed. I always wondered what that envelope was. Thanks @Ignorant
@callow @heartny @Ignorant @Kyeh @mschuette @ybmuG Android using chrome I only see it if I turn my phone sideways. Otherwise only an envelope.
@callow @heartny @Ignorant @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG Yep, sounds like your phone switches between the mobile layout and desktop layout depending on the “width” of each orientation.
@callow @heartny @Ignorant @mschuette @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG Oh, same here, actually.
I think it just means you get an email for every new comment to the topic?
@mossygreen Oh, that would make sense.
This. That is exactly what it does.
@mossygreen makes sense, but why have I never seen it before??? Should I be worried? Am I losing my mental acuity? Should I be taking supplements?
@ybmuG Yes.
@mossygreen Great - just what I needed.
It’s not a tumor!
@yakkoTDI
Are you sure?
Define: Tumor
tu·mor /ˈt(y)o͞omər/
noun: tumour; plural noun: tumours; noun: tumor; plural noun: tumors
…
archaic
a swelling of any kind.
Doesn’t this ‘swell’ your email box?
@yakkoTDI @ybmuG @Cerridwyn
@Cerridwyn @chienfou @yakkoTDI some great lines from that movie!
“Boys have a penis; girls have a vagina.”
“Well, I see you’ve taught them the basics.”