I've spent tonight finishing my new notification system for this site.

Once it is pushed to the live site users will be able to choose how they receive comment notifications in a more fine-grained manner.

Right now in the user options there is a single checkbox "receive notification emails". That controls whether you'll receive an email in response to a new comment:

• posted upon an article you've authored.
• posted upon a weblog entry you've created.
• posted in response to a comment you left.

The new system allows you to specify different behaviours from each of these comment-types. You can choose:

• No notification at all.
• A site message
• An email notification; the same as you get now.

This will be further enhanced in the future to allow article authors to choose different options based upon the age of the article; I rarely receive urgent comments on articles authored a year or more ago, for example. So it seems obvious to allow "new articles" and "old articles" to be treated differently ..

As always feedback welcome. The testing is complete and I think things work, but I'd rather update the live site upon a day when I have time to watch out for unforseen bugs..