Epicski Subscription Tutorial Locked wiki

Subscriptions are the way to personalize your experience on EpicSki so you can be kept abreast of only the changes that you care about. You can subscribe to forum threads, users whose content you enjoy reading, individual pieces of gear/resorts, wikis, etc. This way, each time you visit your home page you can see what has changed that you care about, without having to sift through stuff you don't. Additionally, you can get subscription content in immediate, daily, or weekly emails if you like - get more detail below.

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Learn:

1. Add Subscriptions
2. View Your Subscription Content
3. Edit Your Subscriptions (or DELETE Your Subscriptions)
   
4. Change Your Subscription Email Notification Preferences
   
5. Change Your Preference For Default Subscriptions To Content You Edit

Add Subscriptions

Subscribe to Products

When you subscribe to a product, you will be notified when someone writes a new review.  You will also be notified when the description, specs, links, images, and product wiki are updated.

1. Navigate to the product page.
2. At the right hand side, below the product name, you will see the "Subscribe to this Item" button.  Click the button.
   
3. You will receive a notification pop up that says your subscription has been successfully added.
4. You can also subscribe to the product by clicking the check box when you add the product to Your List or when you write a review.
   

Subscribe to Forum Threads

When you subscribe to a forum thread, you will be notified when someone replies to the thread.

1. Navigate to the forum thread.
2. At the top of the thread (below the thread title) and at the bottom of the thread, you will see the "Subscribe to this thread" button.
   
3. Click the button. You will receive a notification pop up that says your subscription has been successfully added.
4. You can also subscribe to the product by clicking the check box when you reply to (or create) a thread.
   

Subscribe to Users

When you subscribe to another user, you will be notified when he or she replies or creates a new thread, when he or she creates or edits a Wiki article, or when he or she writes a review.

1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
2. Underneath his or her avatar, you will see two buttons.  The top button is the "Subscribe" button.
   
3. Click "Subscribe."  You will receive a notification pop up that says your subscription has been successfully added.

Subscribe to Wikis

When you subscribe to a Wiki article, you will be notified when someone updates the article.

1. Navigate to the Wiki article.
2. At the top of the article, below the title, you will see four buttons on the right hand side.  Furthest to the right, you will see the "Subscribe" button.
   
3. Click the button.  You will receive a notification pop up that says your subscription has been successfully added.

View Your Subscription Content

You can view your latest subscription content from your logged in home page.

1. Navigate to your logged in home page.
2. In the middle of the page, you will see the "Stuff You Care About."  These are your subscriptions.
    

Edit Your Subscriptions

Change Your Subscriptions from Your Subscription Management Page

1. Navigate to your logged in home page to view the users, threads, tags, and products you are subscribed to.
2. Above the "Stuff You Care About" section, you will see the "Edit subscriptions" button on the right hand side.
   
3. Click the button to view your subscriptions management page.
4. From here, you can see what you are subscribed to, when you subscribed, and you can delete subscriptions.  To delete subscriptions, click the "X" button in the right hand column.

Remove Your Subscriptions From Your Email

Currently, you can access the one-click unsubscribe button from all of your EpicSki emails.

1. In your email, open an EpicSki email.
2. At the bottom of each email you will see some text in gray lettering.  This will note which email address was used to deliver the email, as well as include a link to your subscription management center and a one-click unsubscribe.
   
3. Click on "one-click unsubscribe" if you would like to unsubscribe from all email.

Change Your Subscription Email Notification Preferences

When you subscribe to content, if you have verified your email address, you can choose to have email notifications delivered to you.

1. Navigate to your logged in home page to view the users, threads, tags, and products you are subscribed to.
2. Above the "Stuff You Care About" section, you will see the "Edit subscriptions" button on the right hand side.
   
3. Click the button to view your subscriptions page.
4. At the top of the page, you will see "Email Notification Preferences."  From here, you can select Immediate notifications (to be emailed immediately when something changes), Daily notifications (to receive a daily digest of your subscriptions), Weekly notifications (to receive a weekly digest of your subscriptions), or no notifications.

Change Your Preference For Default Subscriptions To Content You Edit

On every forum post reply, review, and wiki article you write, there is a check box to allow you to subscribe to that particular item of content.  You can either choose to have that check box checked (i.e. to add that content to your subscriptions) or unchecked (i.e. not to add that content to your subscriptions).

1. Navigate to your Profile page.  Click the "Edit Account Details" button.
2. In your Account, you can change your preference for the default for this subscription option.
3. If you would like to always have the subscription option enabled to auto-subscribe you to content, check the box that says, "Subscribe to Content I Edit by Default."  If you wish to have that box unchecked by default, uncheck this box.