Email Notification of Album Changes

webhead
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Joined: 2004-11-21
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Posted: Sun, 2004-12-19 19:47

Hey there,

I think a cool feature would be to allow people who browse the album to have the option to 'subscribe' to some sort of automatic email list, that emailed them whenever the album was changed.

I have no idea if this would be hard pr not. Maybe it could have options when they're subscribing, like what kinds of changes to watch? Like, photos added, or photos removed. Whether simply reordering photos was considered a change.

Does this sort of thing already exist?

Dan
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h0bbel
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Posted: Sun, 2004-12-19 20:03

Yes, this is a feature of recent Gallery versions.
 
webhead
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Posted: Sun, 2004-12-19 20:05

Really? I can't seem to find it.........could you describe where I would find it, how I would implement it, ect?

Thanks in advance!

Dan
 
webhead
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Posted: Sun, 2004-12-19 20:06

Oh, and what I mean exactly is that it would be in a way so a viewer doesn't have to create an account and such. Simply enter thier email address, and tadda!

Dan
 
h0bbel
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Posted: Sun, 2004-12-19 20:07

It's only for logged in users that have registered, at this point.
 
webhead
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Posted: Sun, 2004-12-19 20:29

I see........okay, thanks!

Dan
 
maggard
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Posted: Mon, 2005-01-10 23:39

However, there IS the RSS option. Using it folks can "subscribe" to your site and when an update occurs they'll be notified.

The nice part of RSS in Gallery is there's nothing to do on your end, no email bounces or wonky spam filters, no collecting email addresses, no hassle of managing a mailing list.

The down side is it requires your subscribers know what RSS is and they check in with it every so often.

Also, there are RSS-to0email services out there, I suppose you could provide a link to that and bridge the gap that way.
 
rad_thundercat

Joined: 2006-02-12
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Posted: Sun, 2006-02-12 22:00

Is there automatic notification available for Gallery 2? (I searched and this is the only relevant post that came up)
 
dussel2001

Joined: 2006-02-16
Posts: 3
Posted: Thu, 2006-02-16 16:06

the function is very nice!!
But now after the update to version v1.5.2-pl2 i changed the properties of all my albums and the subscribtion is removed in all albums...
i dont now why bot all people must set a new mark if they want the notification...

Is this a fault of the gallery or a fault of my webserver??

greetz Dussel

 
brodiemac

Joined: 2005-07-22
Posts: 24
Posted: Sun, 2006-07-09 02:11

Is there any kind of update on this? I host a photo album for my family and I have family member SCREAMING for a feature like this. They would like to subscribe to album updates and be notified by email whenever the album they subscribe to has new items added.
 
rad_thundercat

Joined: 2006-02-12
Posts: 4
Posted: Mon, 2006-07-10 16:38

I'm glad to see this thread surface again. I've searched and searched... is it still not possible to have email notifications sent out when new items have been added?
 
brodiemac

Joined: 2005-07-22
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Posted: Thu, 2006-07-13 01:30

I didn't realize this was in the G1 thread. I'm on G2 now!