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One feature of ATutor that many of our users at helsekompetanse.no appreciates is the email subscription to forum threads. Last year we also subscription to the announcement feed that is on the front page of each course, and the newest addition to the feed subscription family is the blog subscription that I posted under contributions just a few minutes ago.

The announcement feed subscription posted last year was a bit of a quick hack. It works, but on the code side it isn't particularly pretty. This time around, I wrote a class called subscription that can easily be used to add email subscription to other feeds (should this become an issue in the future), and which also can easily be used to handle subscription for the already implemented forum and announcement subscription. The latter wouldn't in any way add to today's functionality, but it would serve to 'clean up' the codebase somewhat, as we now actually have four different methods of subscribing and sending out emails for four different feeds. (Forums, forum threads, announcements and blogs.)