Subscribing

uralmaid

Just wanted to ask - sometimes when reading peoples posts on some of the threads they state "I have subscribed to your thread"  Not sure what this means - does it just mean they are follwing or are they paying some sort of subscription to the thread?  

MSE_James

They likely mean they've used the bookmark button

 to add the thread to their bookmarked threads page,  and/or configured their notification settings things so they are alerted to further posts in that thread.

QrizB

There's a setting in your account to receive notifications for "New replies on threads I've participated in".

So by replying to a thread with anything, even just the word "subscribed" they'll get notifications when the thread is updated/commented on.

You can achieve much the same result by using the "bookmark" function and (at least in my opinion) bookmarks are easier to manage. I've got the "new replies" notifications turned off.

fatbelly

I have subscribed to this thread

I hit the little open square top right and now it's a filled square