@carson.matt you get notified for the first comment after you added a comment. But if you don't visit the discussion you won't get notified for later comments. One way to get constant notifications is marking the discussion with the star sign on the discussions list page.(the icon the right side) That worked for me.

@ulahcherubim -- Thanks but I actually only got your notification, but not mmplx's, despite already having this thread starred. Not sure what's going on.

@dstillman What is the best way to stay updated with the forum?
(I'm waiting to get an opportunity to use Zotero on Android and want to be notified when the next slots are available.)

@carson.matt: No, that's absolutely incorrect. As explained above, after you've posted to a thread, you'll get an email for the first comment since the last time you viewed the thread. You won't receive more emails after that until the next time you visit the thread. So if you want to make sure you get a notification for every comment, you just need to click the link in each email notification (and be logged into the forum). That's it.

Because there's no shortage of beta testers? The point of the beta program is to get people to test the app who should actually be using beta software and who will actively use the forums to provide feedback and report bugs. The current system is doing that just fine. If you haven't yet gotten access to the beta, I'm sorry about that, but the app just isn't out yet, and there are many more people who want to use it than we're comfortable allowing at this time.

@michaelanthonyabril: That's not comparable in any way, and you seem very confused about these forums and how Zotero development works.

Zotero 6 was in public beta for a year with probably tens of thousands of users, and the issue in question was just whether we had prioritized a particular advanced feature that was important to you when developing the new note editor. As I explained at the time, there was a huge amount of discussion about the Zotero 6 beta, and the feature you were interested in just didn't come up much. We added it a few weeks later in response to feedback, including yours, in a much more user-accessible way than had ever existed. Development doesn't stop the day we release something.

Similarly, there've been thousands of posts on the Zotero 7 beta in the last year, and we've been engaging with testers many times a day throughout that period and making countless changes in response to feedback. It looks like you've only made a handful of posts here — mostly about the above issue and wanting to stay on Zotero 5 — and haven't posted in a couple years, but the slightest glance at these forums should make it clear that we deeply value and engage with feedback here. The forums have been central to Zotero development for almost two decades. The idea that we don't "communicate" with our users because we don't put out blog posts very often is utterly bizarre.

The Android app is a totally different situation. It's a completely new app, and it will have a similar feature set as the iOS app to start. The beta is limited because it's a brand new codebase, and we're not going to risk corrupting tens of thousands of people's libraries with untested code or frustrating regular users with broken functionality. But whether or not you try the beta, you'll have plenty of chance to provide feedback and influence development once the app is out, because that's how Zotero development has always worked.

A quick perusal of topics reveals that I'm not the only person who feels shut down when trying to contribute.

The thread you referenced is a clear example.

If you think my going into detail to explain why raw HTML note editing was no longer technically possible was "shutting you down" instead of treating you with respect, I don't know what to tell you. The specific feature you mentioned was table editing, which is what we added to the UI a few weeks later and continued to improve in response to feedback.

You've barely used these forums, so I'm genuinely confused by your approach and apparent feelings here. If you ever have requests other than that we throw out multiple popular new headline features that we've been publicly beta testing for a year, you should certainly start new threads for those and we'll be happy to discuss them with you.