Get notifications when someone comments on post (Activity feed)

Hi,

Just wondering - what's the Auto Actions trigger I use to set a user to get notified when someone comments on their post in the Activity feed? Please give as much info as possible on how to do this.

Cheers

David

Right now you basically can't since the trigger for comments doesn't contain enough information to do this reliably. This will be fixed with CB Activity 4.0.0 and will also make a new system action in CB Auto Actions to quickly toggle on such a notification.

Thanks Kyle, sounds good. The Activity feed looks good but is pretty much useless without these notifications, ie. no one will post if they can't get notified when someone comments. Guess a like button could be handy here too.. Ideally, users should get a pm or email when this happens.

Any idea when this will be ready?

My current timeline is CB 2.1 > GJ 3.0.2 > CB Activity 4.0.0 > GJ 4.0.0. Beyond that I can not provide any further details. We do not provide release dates here. You can see what's coming in CB Activity 4.0.0 by visiting our forge below.

forge.joomlapolis.com/projects/cb-activity/issues

Hi Kyle,

Just wondering - at the moment, it seems like you've put a lot of effort into the Activity feed and great work. Unfortunately, without the ability to receive notifications when someone comments on a post - there's no incentive to post on the feed. That means the feed - and associated community activity - is essentially dead. There's no point in getting new users to join as they can't share content with others via the feed and all they'll see is a bunch of profile and cover pic updates and friend connection updates - a wholly unexciting prospect.

Any chance you could change your timeline and create the trigger/notification capacity before the other elements are finished? If not - do you have any idea when this will be done?

Just wondering - at the moment, it seems like you've put a lot of effort into the Activity feed and great work. Unfortunately, without the ability to receive notifications when someone comments on a post - there's no incentive to post on the feed. That means the feed - and associated community activity - is essentially dead. There's no point in getting new users to join as they can't share content with others via the feed and all they'll see is a bunch of profile and cover pic updates and friend connection updates - a wholly unexciting prospect.

I strongly disagree, but that's a matter of opinion. Without an extension to provide push notifications (on-site notifications) it doesn't matter anyway as no one wants hundreds of emails or PMs for social activity. No idea when we'll have on-site notifications.

Any chance you could change your timeline and create the trigger/notification capacity before the other elements are finished? If not - do you have any idea when this will be done?

No. See my timeline above for when it'll be done. Most of this functionality will be 100% rewritten in 4.0.0.