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The WordPress.org support forums now have subscribe by email, to tags.
To use, login, then view any single tag page. At the bottom of the page, sorta hidden on the left side, you’ll see a link called “Subscribe to Tag via Email”. It’s a toggle.
Note: If you subscribe to heavily trafficked tags, you’re likely to get a LOT of emails. I suggest you use this sparingly, or get an email system that can cope.
Note the second: I fully expect there to be bugs. This is new. Expect fixes when I find them.
Email subscriptions are now enabled for individual topics on the support forums.
Nice!
What about suggestion I sent you for automatic subscriptions to topics with plugin’s tag for plugin author?
And maybe it would be better to have checkbox above submit button. (there are functions for that, if you don’t know how to, look at Kakumei)
Tag subscriptions are next on the list.
Moving the checkbox around is something I’ll do soon.
The new location is nice. No fears of accidentally clicking it 
One day at a time.
+1
I’m starting to like this 3.org thing. 
That’s awesome – keep it up Otto.
Thanks for that!
Nice one Otto! I posted this info to the forums list in case people follow that and not here. That feature should qiuet a few moans and make the forum more useful.
This is a great feature for users to keep them coming back
Plugin authors can now change the “Resolved” status on support topics made about their plugins on .org.
Note: This only works when the topic is made from the plugins area, using the “Got something to say? Need help? Write a new topic.” link at the bottom of the plugins screen. Topics that are simply manually tagged with the name of the plugin won’t work.
Mods and higher can still change the resolved status on any topic, as always. So you may not be able to see this change easily.
WOOT! This is awesome! Yay for upgrades!
Diving in now 
Erm, yes I can see the dropdown now, but clicking “Change” doesn’t have any effect.
What happens when you click Change then? What thread are you trying it on?
I’m trying to mark http://wordpress.org/support/topic/420021 as “resolved”. When I click change, I’m just sent to the same url, and the status is “not resolved”.
I get the same on this thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/413925
trying to change the status from ‘not a support question’ to ‘resolved’ it remains as ‘not a support question’
(Using that thread as a test.)
Hrmmm.. Okay, I’m looking into it. Seems there’s something I missed.
Yep, there was. It’s a bit hard to test this sort of thing when I already had the ability to change that status. Testing as myself bypasses the specific piece of code I was trying to test.
Still, should be working now. I think.
Looks like it is – excellent work, thanks Otto.
Now all we need is a way to seeall threads for all our plugins on one page 
@Otto: yep, works now.
@Rich Pedley: I don’t think that’s a good idea. Popular plugins have 1000s of threads.
Oh, you mean combined. Yeah, that would be nice.
yes combined, and paginated of course. I’ve only got a few and I’d find it useful, I dare say others would as well.
Awesome, I resolved all of the support topics for my plugin and it worked perfectly!
Thanks, this will be a really helpful addition. While you’re tweaking the forums, is there an easy way to exclude the sticky posts from the No Replies view?
Is there another way to tell when a topic is made from the plugins area?
There are a suspiciously large number of my plugin’s support topics that I cannot change the “Resolved” status for, and their titles take the same form as topics where this feature is actually offered to me. Just want to make sure this is working as intended. Thanks Otto!
Well, yes. If you can change the resolved status, it was made from the plugin area.
Seriously, when you use that link to make a new topic, some metadata gets added to the topic on the back end which marks what plugin the topic is about. I use that meta info to do a lookup on the plugin and determine who can adjust the resolved status.
But, if somebody makes a topic and just makes it look similar, with tags and the title and such, then it will still show up in the list of topics about that plugin (as that uses tags), but not have the hidden meta info.
I intentionally did not use the tags, because anybody can adjust them.
Jive, and 5 others are discussing. 
Pete, 
Alex M. 8:41 pm on September 7, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Sweet! I’m personally going to stick to tag feeds, but I’m sure this will be handy for others! Well done!
Otto 8:43 pm on September 7, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yeah, me too. But subscribe by email is one of those things that is continually asked for. The main reason for this is to give plugin authors a way to more easily see topics posted about their plugins.
Mike Schinkel 9:03 pm on September 7, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
NICE! I will definitely use this. It will be especially handy for plugin authors too.
Milan 10:00 pm on September 7, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
It’s great that you listened to my suggestions. Will you release code somewhere so that it can be used on other bbPress forums too?
Otto 10:03 pm on September 7, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I need to clean up the plugin first and work out any bugs, but yes, eventually.
Simon Wheatley 8:52 am on September 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Nice work, this is going to be super handy!
Currently it’s not possible to subscribe to a tag which has no posts. Any chance of allowing preemptive tags?
Jive 8:39 pm on September 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Seconded. Email subscriptions for tags without posts would be very useful so that devs can be notified when the first forum post is made.
Otto 9:17 pm on September 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
No plans to add this, but there is a quick workaround: Add the tag to one of your own posts, subscribe to it, then remove the tag.
Milan 5:29 pm on September 29, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
If you followed my advice and used built-in functions, this wouldn’t be a problem.
Why you actually created completely new functions?
kyle 12:26 pm on September 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’m so happy you turned this on. I’m a much higher contributor to topics now.
Thanks,
~Kyle~
Mike Schinkel 3:48 pm on September 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Some suggestions after a day of usage:
1.) HTML UNencode the content.
2.) Include the message which is being replied to like this site does.
#2 is a nice to have, #1 is a must have…
Thanks.
-Mike
Otto 4:35 pm on September 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
It’s already running it through strip_tags. What HTML are you seeing?
Mike Schinkel 6:24 pm on September 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Just sent you two example via email.
Otto 6:33 pm on September 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
HTML Entities. Got it. No problem, I can patch the plugin to handle these correctly.
Mike Schinkel 7:50 pm on September 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Another tiny suggestion. The wording is a little unclear, especially for unsubscribe:
– Subscribe to Tag via Email
– Unsubscribe to Tag via Email
Maybe?
– Subscribe to Emails for this Tag
– Unsubscribe from Emails for this Tag
Clearly people will figure it out as it but it caught me off guard for a second when I decided to unsubscribe a high-volume tag.
Michael Fields 8:17 am on September 9, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Loving this functionality! I think that this feature is really going to help out with the quality of support at wordpress.org. One suggestion that I have is to add the ability to subscribe to a thread without replying to it.
Otto 8:27 am on September 9, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
You already can subscribe without replying. Look on the right hand side, under “About this Topic”. There’s a subscribe/unsubscribe link there. Click it.
Michael Fields 12:19 pm on September 9, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Nice! For some reason I never look over there.
Mike Schinkel 9:07 pm on September 10, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
If you are looking for enhancements that would be highly appreciated two that would be are:
1.) Preview-As-You-Type – I’ve been using a preview-as-you-type system on http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ and find it greatly reduces the effort required to produce a nicely formatted reply and it really cuts down on the save-edit-resave cycles.
2.) A wiki-like syntax – Generally I hate wiki syntaxes and would prefer to see sites going with pure HTML as the WordPress Support site pretty much does but after a month of working with http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ I have to say their wiki language gets it right; it’s much less effort to format answers on their site than on any other site/forum that I’ve used before.
Something to consider anyway?