[mono-android] [MonoTouch] Introducing the Xamarin Forums

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Oct 5, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Wally McClure <theevilprogrammer at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Web forums don't reach out and touch me.

This one can. From forums.xamarin.com, click the small "world" icon to the right of your login name ("Notifications" is the hover-text), then click Notification Preferences. You can then enable Email notifications for ALL threads and posts (including all replies!) in the Category Notifications section:

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If you don't see a Category Notifications section, yell profusely at nat. ;-)

The one downside is that, while you'll get an email whenever something "interesting" happens, the email isn't particularly useful, e.g.:

> Subject: [xamarin] Cheesebaron commented on Converted FlowLayout.java won't process xml paramaters
> 
> Cheesebaron commented on Converted FlowLayout.java won't process xml paramaters
> 
> Follow the link below to check it out:
> http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/156#Comment_156
> 
> Have a great day!

So there's a notification + a URL + some information about what the message is in reply to, but there's no "content". It's still useful, and it's still spamming my inbox, so I'm "happy" (I'd be happier with actual message content...). Plus, it makes the forums actually USEFUL to me, as I don't need to "poll" to see if threads I've replied to have gotten further responses.

 - Jon