Subscribed Threads

Hagar

Not quite sure where to put this one.

I subscribed to a thread yesterday using the Thread Tools > Subscibe option, I was sort of surprised to find that I am subscribed to about 5400 threads. Presumably this has happened as I have selected the options to "automatically subscribe to threads posted in" and "receive email if a thread you are subscribed to is updated".

I know I can un-subscribe from all threads but that's a bit severe.

Should the current feature be changed to only subscribe posters to threads for a period of say 3 months from the poster's most recent post on the thread?

I suspect monitoring threads like this creates a significant overhead on the servers? Especially given the number of threads and posters we have. I may be wrong but there might be an efficiency we could achieve there?

Sherifu

Hagar wrote: »

Should the current feature be changed to only subscribe posters to threads for a period of say 3 months from the poster's most recent post on the thread?

I like seeing when the old threads get dragged up. It could be made optional if possible though.