Email Notification Reset... ("email nagging")

crazedbuzz

Hi!

I've got a couple of instances of Flarum setup on my server. I absolutely love it.

In one of the instances, it's important for users to get notifications whether they're "caught up" or not. I'm wondering how I would go about resetting whatever it is that decides they're not caught up. I'm okay with running a script that updates this field enmasse.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

clarkwinkelmann

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. Are you trying to re-send emails users have not yet read ? Or is it about manipulating the "mark all as read" feature ?

Or are you trying to build a new email reminder that checks whether the user has read or marked all discussions as read ?

crazedbuzz

clarkwinkelmann Sorry for the confusion. Let me explain better.

Currently Flarum only sends one notification, then waits until the user is "caught up" before sending any further notifications. This happens on a per-thread basis, so a user will get notified twice if there's activity on two different threads. If there's any follow-up activity on those threads, no notifications happen unless the user goes back to the site (not sure if Flarum determines if a user is "caught up" based upon viewing the site, or each individual thread).

I want Flarum to send a notification regardless of whether the user is caught up. "Why do that," you ask? In one particular forum, users sometimes delete notifications that don't require them to do anything, but end up not returning to the site. Flarum doesn't send any further notifications, so they end up forgetting for days on end. This causes out-of-band communication via IM's or whatnot, which defeats my purpose for having the forum.

Does that make sense?

clarkwinkelmann

crazedbuzz right, now I understand. Should have thought of that ?

I'm actually not sure how this works. Maybe it's something around the onePerUser method and property in https://github.com/flarum/core/blob/master/src/Core/Notification/NotificationSyncer.php but I can't get my head around the way it would know about existing notifications, at least not by just reading the source.

As for editing the database directly, setting is_deleted to true for each notification should reset the notification status, based on what I've seen in the source. However I don't know how this impacts the user experience with in-browser notifications.

crazedbuzz

clarkwinkelmann Thanks for the pointer. I'll take a look in the source, see if I can suss it out at all. If I get something, I'll report back (hopefully). Thanks again!