Email alerts about response to your question

June 7, 2005 12:28 AM

Ask Metafilter: would be great if members posting questions could receive email alerts on new answers to their questions.

(please excuse me if this exists. I searched and couldn't find it)
posted by mirileh to Feature Requests at 12:28 AM (12 comments total)

You know what would be better is if members could get RSS feeds that have new answers to questions.
posted by grouse at 2:04 AM on June 7, 2005

I'll soon do RSS feeds of any thread on the site, but not email. Email's too much trouble.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:48 AM on June 7, 2005

I'll soon do RSS feeds of any thread on the site

*dances like Tevye*
posted by gleuschk at 4:23 AM on June 7, 2005

Clicking and waiting for the page to load is like the work of meditation one must do for the payoff of enlightenment.
posted by OmieWise at 5:43 AM on June 7, 2005

After there are RSS feeds, you can use something like Bot A Blog to get e-mail on it. Although using an RSS aggregator will probably be more useful.
posted by grouse at 6:06 AM on June 7, 2005

Uptime must be Job One.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 9:38 AM on June 7, 2005

He ain't Omie the Wise for nuttin'! Well said. ;-P
posted by mischief at 9:58 AM on June 7, 2005

Ugh, there actually exist RSS-to-email sites? How hideously backwards.

Actually, getting SMS'd when a site updates in a certain fashion would be sometimes useful. But I'd bet that 90% of the users of RSS-to-email apps are anti-RSS luddites. Speaking of which, maybe my wife would like that site.
posted by Plutor at 10:02 AM on June 7, 2005

Uptime must be Job One.

RSS => less traffic => less strain on server => more uptime

Hopefully :)
posted by uncle harold at 10:55 AM on June 7, 2005

E-mail alerts are totally unnecessary, IMO, since questions rarely get answered once they fall off the front page anyways. So just check the thread for the three or four days that it still gets attention.
posted by ori at 2:16 PM on June 7, 2005

Maybe if we knew the asker was getting email alerts then we would be more likely to answer older questions. I know I would.
posted by vacapinta at 2:40 PM on June 7, 2005

mathowie: I'll soon do RSS feeds of any thread on the site, but not email. Email's too much trouble.

Squeee!
posted by dejah420 at 11:08 AM on June 8, 2005