Marrowforums has two email notification features that you can use to find new threads and posts:
- Digests. You can have daily or weekly digests sent to you by email. You "subscribe" to any number of forums and/or any number of threads that you want to follow. You are then sent daily or weekly email telling you of new activity. Clicking one of the links in the email will take your web browser to the new thread or new post.
- Instant email. You can have email sent to you as soon as somebody makes a post in a thread, but only for threads you specifically subscribe to. For performance reasons, there is no option to email you instantly for every post in every thread.
Both of these features use the forum's "email notification" feature. You can read more about subscriptions and email notification in the
Forum and Thread Subscriptions page of the FAQ.
You may wonder why you can't get email every time a post is made to any forum. That's because of the nature of forum systems. A busy forum system may have hundreds or thousands of members making hundreds or thousands of posts. If 150 members each made 2 posts a day, and every member was notified of every post, that would generate 1.3 million email messages a month. Whenever the number of members doubles, the number of email messages quadruples. Since some forum sites have thousands of members, sending email notifications by default would clearly be impractical.
Instead, members can pick and choose the discussions they want to follow, by subscribing to one or more specific forums or threads.
If you want to keep track of as much as possible, you can subscribe to every single forum and thereby learn of all new threads from the digest emailed to you. If you find that you are getting too much email that way, you can unsubscribe from some or all forums.