[wp-forums] RSS / Email Subscriptions to Support Threads

[Otto]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Paul Kaiser <paul.kaiser at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm wondering how long these features have been on the forum:
> 1. RSS feed for specific threads (like for a certain plugin.)
> 2. Email notifications for specific threads
>
> I'm writing an article about getting the most out of the forums, and
> don't remember those features being there a few years ago. Perhaps I
> just missed it back then, but if not, does anyone know how long
> they've been around?

Before we had the new plugin stuff, plugins used the tags system in
the forums to distinguish which-was-which.  So, those tag feeds have
existed pretty much forever.

The new plugin stuff makes each plugin have its own little Support tab
area (sorta) on the plugin's own page. This was done in May:
http://wordpress.org/news/2012/05/plugins-refreshed/ . RSS feeds for
those special views were also added at this time. I added email
subscriptions to them about a month after that post.

Email subscriptions for specific forum threads was added a bit more
than 2 years ago or so. I know that I added email subscriptions for
tags 23 months ago, but I'm not sure when I first turned on individual
thread email subscriptions.

-Otto