One of the things I'm noticing, new users often don't realize their New
Scan doesn't work out of the box because all areas are default sub "off".

Might it be useful to have a way for the sysop to set new user suscription defaults at a Conference or Area level? Dunno. Thinking about how
old-school BBSs often handled this, I think Iniquity and Renegade had a per-area setting that was "default on" or "required on" (meaning a user couldn't un-sub it, like announcements or updates most likely).

Not a big deal and probably waaaay less important that the other things
on yer plate :)



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One of the things I'm noticing, new users often don't realize their New
Scan doesn't work out of the box because all areas are default sub "off".

Might it be useful to have a way for the sysop to set new user suscription defaults at a Conference or Area level? Dunno. Thinking about how
old-school BBSs often handled this, I think Iniquity and Renegade had a per-area setting that was "default on" or "required on" (meaning a user couldn't un-sub it, like announcements or updates most likely).

I've added a new option to message area definitions eg:

subbed_by_default = true

will subscribe a user to that base when the user is created.

it defaults to false..

Haven't done a required thing, but hopefully this helps.

Andrew
PS it's in git now





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I've added a new option to message area definitions eg:

subbed_by_default = true

will subscribe a user to that base when the user is created.

it defaults to false..

Awesome, very cool. Will pull and check out.


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