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[RichardHarris123]

Hello all. 

My notifications aren't working, anyone else having issues.  I've checked the settings and I should get notifications. 

[JohnR725]

32 minutes ago, RichardHarris123 said:

My notifications aren't working, anyone else having issues.  I've checked the settings and I should get notifications.

yes I noticed that yesterday no activity on the group as I had no emails. I assumed it was something related to my emails. In the past Mark actually stopped sending me notifications because one of my email addresses was balancing everything. Then I switch to another email address and occasionally they just don't come through it all. So thinking it was my system and not the message board I changed to a third email address. Which obviously isn't going to work if the message board is having a problem.

[RichardHarris123]

You must be magic @JohnR725, working again now.  Hehe. 

[JohnR725]

yours is working but mine still is not. I did receive an email from the message board notifying me that I changed my email address but that was it no more notifications at all.

[GuyMontag]

I'm having issues too. When I post a new thread or follow someone else's thread I always select the "A notification when new content is posted" option. Lately though I am not getting notifications (I checked my spam folder too).

[JohnR725]

Maybe the message board software thinks were spending too much time here and that we should acquire a new or different hobby?

In the past that had issues with email addresses which is why change to something entirely different.

Then I went into the settings and played with those and I was getting some messages but not what I used to get. So yes the message  board does seem to have issues.

 

[oldhippy]

Are notifications still not getting through if so message Mark. 

[RichardHarris123]

Working fine for me, I  don't use the email notifications, just the one on the site.

[JohnR725]

21 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

Are notifications still not getting through if so message Mark. 

I know for a while it wasn't working at all as I pointed up up above. Then it may be working again I'm just not 100% sure? Your question did come through as a email and the comment below by @RichardHarris123 hat also is come through as an email like it's supposed to.

 

[GuyMontag]

On 4/13/2024 at 12:41 PM, GuyMontag said:

I'm having issues too. When I post a new thread or follow someone else's thread I always select the "A notification when new content is posted" option. Lately though I am not getting notifications (I checked my spam folder too).

I hope I may have fixed it. Although I had the "A notification when new content is posted" selected, I found that I didn't have that notification being sent by email, so it was just in the browser. Fingers crossed that fixed it. I know I used to get emails I didn't change this setting so I'm guessing there was something done on the sites end (?) that changed it.

[JohnR725]

On 4/20/2024 at 3:37 PM, GuyMontag said:

Fingers crossed that fixed it. I know I used to get emails I didn't change this setting so I'm guessing there was something done on the sites end (?) that changed it.

I'm curious how the settings have worked out for you? I changed my settings look identical to yours I did change or check one of the boxes that I hadn't done before and no I wasn't paying attention did not take a screen capture but mine looks like yours now

Then this morning I got three emails more than usual which lately has been practically none.

The emails are interesting versus the notifications though? hen the notification icon listing is interesting is that it does correspond to the number of emails sort of? So in it the discussions were of someone commented I did get an email by on one of the discussions there were three comments in the notification it does lump all three together and there was only one email for the first comment none for the rest of them. So in the past I would I had a separate email for every single comment on the other hand in a form of an email that something has been posted on is better than no emails at all which is what has been happening lately

 

[GuyMontag]

4 hours ago, JohnR725 said:

I'm curious how the settings have worked out for you? I changed my settings look identical to yours I did change or check one of the boxes that I hadn't done before and no I wasn't paying attention did not take a screen capture but mine looks like yours now

Then this morning I got three emails more than usual which lately has been practically none.

The emails are interesting versus the notifications though? hen the notification icon listing is interesting is that it does correspond to the number of emails sort of? So in it the discussions were of someone commented I did get an email by on one of the discussions there were three comments in the notification it does lump all three together and there was only one email for the first comment none for the rest of them. So in the past I would I had a separate email for every single comment on the other hand in a form of an email that something has been posted on is better than no emails at all which is what has been happening lately

 

Well, I got an email for your reply so I think that fixed it for me.

[JohnR725]

It does look like it seems to be working again I'm getting emails.

[mikepilk]

I'm not getting notifications, anyone else ?

 

[RichardHarris123]

I am.  On my phone just using the bell symbol, I don't bother with email notifications.  Actually I  stopped receiving email notifications a long time ago, I  don't remember cancelling them. 

[GuyMontag]

55 minutes ago, mikepilk said:

I'm not getting notifications, anyone else ?

 

Something odd is going on with email notifications. As I posted above with the screenshot, when I checked my notification settings I saw that somehow the option to send an email notification in addition to the browser notification was not selected, even though previously that had been working for me. So I selected the email option, in addition to the two top options of automatically following new content I post or reply to.

I did not get an email notification for your post (I did get the browser notification), which I should have (it does show me as subscribed to this thread) and when I went to look again at my notification setting, the board software has again unchecked the email notification option (in addition to the two top automatically follow options). The below left is a screenshot of how it was setup after my last post and the right is how it was just now when I rechecked. For some reason the board is resetting this preference on its own.

Edited May 2, 2024 by GuyMontag

[mikepilk]

I don't want email notifications, but I'm not getting the bell notifications.

Ha ha, and then I get one about your message @GuyMontag

 

Edited May 2, 2024 by mikepilk

[oldhippy]

I have just messaged Mark about this problem. I'm not receiving any as well. I'll give you an up date when Mark replies.  

[JohnR725]

3 hours ago, GuyMontag said:

Something odd is going on with email notifications.

if you're trying to keep track of conversations scattered all over the message board emails are an absolute must.

 

looking at the bell icon on the top of the page versus the emails today it looks like I got the correct amount of emails. So making some minor change based on the one of the images up above I started getting notifications again. But at times I still have a suspicion that something isn't quite right. I have some feeling that the message board may delay sending emails until something so seems to be a long delay between when you get your emails just a weird feeling things aren't quite right

oh  and then even though I do seem to be getting emails I no longer get notifications of personal messages I don't find that out until I arrived at the message board where I'm pretty sure I used to get notifications of those two.

So something is definitely changed on the message board.

then for everyone not getting emails you do want to check your spam folder. I have found that sometimes were open up an email the system I use warns me that it thinks the email is evil and bad and I have no idea why he thinks some of the emails are and some are not. But this is actually the program I use not the email system which also has a mind of its own as to what it considers spam so you should always check your spam folder.

[oldhippy]

  Message from Mark at the top of the page click on the bell and you will find notifications click settings and then you can choose.