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[0.9.x] How to disable subscriptions to comments.

1 Oct 08, 2007 10:14    

My b2evolution Version: 0.9.x

Hello,

Ive just realised that my registered users who subscribe to email notifications of comments get to see the commenters email address (if theyve entered it into the comment form) and IP address. This isnt good for my Blog where anonymity is paramount.

Id like to remove the option for them to receive notifications of comments. I dont mind keeping notifications of Posts. Is this possible?

Im trying to better understand RSS feeds - still primarily gibberish to me - but am I correct in assuming that if it was important to someone that they were kept updated on comments they could subscribe to the RSS feed instead?

Hopefully Im making sense? All help appreciated,

Sally M

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2 Oct 08, 2007 14:39

Ive pretty much fixed the problem, a round-about way perhaps but should work. I removed the "comments" check box options from the subscriptions.php and deleted all my users. Drastic but so be it. Also suggested that if users want to ne notified of comments they should subscribe to the RSS.

Anyone forsee any problems?

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3 Oct 08, 2007 14:41

In your skin's _main.php find the section (probably in the sidebar) that looks similar to this:

		<h3><?php echo T_('Syndication') ?></h3>
				<li>
					<br />RSS 2.0:<br /><br />
					<a href="<?php $Blog->disp( 'rss2_url', 'raw' ) ?>" title="RSS2.0 Posts" ><img src="img/rss2posts.gif" width="80" height="15" alt="RSS2.0 Posts" title="RSS2.0 Posts" /></a>&nbsp;
					<a href="<?php $Blog->disp( 'comments_rss2_url', 'raw' ) ?>" title="RSS2.0 Comments" ><img src="img/rss2com.gif" width="80" height="15" alt="RSS2.0 Comments" title="RSS2.0 Comments" 

/></a>
				</li>

and remove the second A HREF... the part that talks about "comments"... (or you can just comment it out)... The end result should looks something like this:

		<h3><?php echo T_('Syndication') ?></h3>
				<li>
					<br />RSS 2.0:<br /><br />
					<a href="<?php $Blog->disp( 'rss2_url', 'raw' ) ?>" title="RSS2.0 Posts" ><img src="img/rss2posts.gif" width="80" height="15" alt="RSS2.0 Posts" title="RSS2.0 Posts" /></a>
				</li>

Do the same for the RSS .92, RSS 1, and ATOM sections...

As far as *what* RSS feeds are... well.. have a read here:
http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2005/07/rss-vs-atom-you-know-for-dummies/

(You should also give some serious consideration to updating your blog to a current version, but first-things first)

jj.

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4 Oct 08, 2007 14:54

There's a current version already? Mine is only a few months old...everything changes way too quickly :).

Im happy to keep the RSS feeds for comments because, so far as I can tell, RSS feeds dont give away any contact or IP information on the person commenting to other subscribers. Am I wrong?

Thanks for the link, will have a read right now :)

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5 Oct 08, 2007 14:56

Oh, well, you listed your version as 0.9.x which is a very outdated version...

jj.

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6 Oct 08, 2007 15:00

Sorry, I selected what I thought sounded the closest from the drop box...Ive got 1.9.3. Naive.

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