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Thread: Losing Subscriptions
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2010-11-28, 09:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Losing Subscriptions
So, I usually subscribe to all of the game recruitment threads I'm interested in, so as to keep tabs on them without trawling through the forums, and I usually don't unsubscribe after the game itself starts. I also subscribe to the IC and OOC threads of those games. So, at some point I had around 74 subcriptions. Today, I went to go looking for one of them, and notice that the number had dropped to around 60-something. Is this a regular forum procedure, that after a subscription doesn't update for a while it gets deleted? Or does the thread itself disappear after a while, taking the subscription with it? Is there a cap on subscriptions, or do they just delete themselves based on how long ago they've updated?
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2010-11-28, 10:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Losing Subscriptions
I'm currently subscribed to 490 threads, so I don't think there's a cap.
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2010-11-28, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Losing Subscriptions
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2010-11-29, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Losing Subscriptions
I'm currently subscribed to almost a thousand. I'm guessing they're in the same situation as me. In my case, most of the threads I've subscribed to are past their expiration date and don't have any posts in them. I think the most threads I get in any one day are 20.
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2010-11-29, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
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As someone in the same boat as you, I can confirm that it's the thread itself vanishing - the OOC threads, to be precise, as they have a lower expiration-to-deletion period.
Some of your older OOC threads - I'd estimate dating from about a year ago - will be the ones vanishing, I can guarantee it.
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2010-11-29, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Losing Subscriptions
Avatar by zimmerwald1915
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Wow, it's been a while. Sorry for the unexplained absence!
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2010-11-29, 02:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Losing Subscriptions
Recruitment threads poof as well-those and the OOC threads going down is probably enough to be what you're seeing.
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2010-11-30, 03:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Losing Subscriptions
Isn't that exercise in futility? I mean, aren't you supposed to subscribe to threads that update at least semi-regulary? I have three subscriptions at the moment and I'll most likely remove one of those, since it hasn't been updated in more than half a year.
If there are threads that I think are important to me, I usually just put them in a GitP folder in my bookmarks, so I can go back and check on them any time I wish. Much less clustered that way.Adrie, half elven bard. Drawing by Vulion, avatar by CheesePirate. Colored version by Callos_DeTerran. Thanks a lot, you guys.This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here."There will come a day so dark you will pray for death. On that day your prayers will be answered."Book of shadows, book of night, wake the beast and banish light.
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2010-11-30, 09:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Losing Subscriptions
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2010-11-30, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2007
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Most of my subscriptions are dead now. Old werewolf games and rp threads that reached 50 pages and were restarted. I don't need to know if there are new posts, because there won't be any, but if I want to find an old post, it's a lot easier to search through my 8 pages of subscriptions than the umpty pages of the entire subforum.
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2010-11-30, 01:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-11-30, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-12-01, 05:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's pretty much it for me. I'm at nearly 800 now because I auto-subscribe to any thread I post in, plus I manually subscribe to threads I find interesting but haven't had anything to say. And I don't prune nearly as often as I should.
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2010-12-06, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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How often should pruning be done? This coming from someone whose only subscribed thread is old, 67 pages long, thread necromancied at least once, and locked like the corners of Xykon's cold, dry heart. I should probably subscribe to the various lets plays I read, especially the one that keeps almost dieing.
I also agree with the above who said that irregularly updating threads are more useful to subscribe to than rather active threads. After all, rather active threads will be obviously updated in all but the most prolific of fora, whereas slow to update threads might get a single post a week, so if they update on a day when you don't come to the forum, you will miss the update.
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2010-12-06, 05:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2008
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2010-12-06, 02:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
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- Argonth
Re: Losing Subscriptions
I don't subscribe to threads at all. >.>
I'm always checking the forums for new threads that interest me anyway, and if a thread drops off the first couple pages I lose interest anyway, so I've never needed to subscribe.Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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