Can we get notifications when people reply to a post of ours?

This is a feature that's on our development list. Unfortunately the available hacks out there that allow quote notifications don't work based on usergroup permissions, which would be problematic for a variety of reasons on here. For example, if you reported a member for whatever reason then that post report (which is sent to us under your ID and quotes the post being reported) would appear on there Who Quoted Me? list, so it would allow them to see who is reporting them. It's a major flaw we need to iron out before we can have the feature implemented here. :eusa_doh:

 

We haven't tried to contact the creator directly, but the reviews/feedback that can be given for hacks has it documented as a problem that people would like fixed. Unfortunately, the hack itself is about 3 years old and is two versions behind vBulletin's most recent product version, so the support for such hacks is becoming increasingly more difficult to get.

Are the other websites you're familiar with using a Who Quoted Me? feature, or a similar feature that is more like Twitter's version of user tagging? I've seen the latter used which appears to be a useful alternative, but I've never really looked into it too much as the version I know of is a premium modification and EC's organisational situation with funding and accountancy is still a work in progress.

One thing I'm also mindful of is that there's a discussion going on with EC's board about how to handle future upgrades to the site software. One option we're looking into is whether to move away from vB and to another forum provider, so any features we add potentially creates more work for us in future when we make a decision on what to do. At the very least we need to consider moving towards a more recent vBulletin version, but the reviews for vB5 seem universally negative, so we're weighing our options. That's not to say that no new features are being installed whatsoever, but the ability to migrate them over to a new version or software is something we need to be mindful of too.