[23-AUG-2012] New e-mail notification system implemented on BLF [Updated: 01-OCT-2012]

Yep, sorry I didn’t make that clear. The new button to subscribe to email updates for a given thread is in the bottom-right hand corner of the first post in every thread. I should probably make that clear in this announcement post.

Ah, I see it now!

-Garry

Updated the original post for clarity

I just made some updates to the system to fix two serious issues that were reported to me via PM.

Please note that the method for configuring your personal preferences has changed. The option to disable all subscription emails and the option to disable automatic subscriptions are now located in your user account settings, under the “Edit” tab in the “Subscriptions” section. Anybody who previously changed those settings will need to do so again. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Take care, have fun.

Edit: good work SB, as always :slight_smile:

It was all O.K I did not get any notification emails for any posts I made or watched. Now I’m getting emails. I want to stop it. I went to setting and unchecked the boxes but I still get emails.

I DO NOT want to get any emails for post and watched posts.
I do want to see which Posts that I made comments on and posted are updates

What do I do?

Did you remember to click "Save" after unchecking the boxes?

Yes I did. I did it all again today, I’ll wait until tomorrow and check my email

Hey there how2,

The checkboxes are for disabling subscriptions. In other words, they should be checked in your case if you don’t want notification emails. I know it’s sort of counter-intuitive, but since I wanted notifications enabled by default, it was easiest to do it this way.

Hope this helps,
Sb

What's the different between

You are not watching this post, click to start watching and Click to Subscribe

in the posts.

Clicking to "Watch the Post" currently only adds it to your "My Watched Posts" page, but does not send out email notifications for thread updates. The "Click to Subscribe" link sends you email alerts to thread updates (only one email until you return to thread again) but I don't believe we have access to a page of our "Subscribed Threads". SB is planning to eventually get rid of the old "Watched Posts" system.

-Garry

+1
:wink:

This simply wont work for me. Is there a significant delay between the post and the email? If so I may be seeing the new post before the system has a chance to email me. Otherwise refer to my first sentence!

Hi there,

Sorry you’re having trouble. The notification gets sent immediately. But it’s very possible that your email service is classifying the notification message as Spam. Please check your Spam folder, and if you find anything from BLF there, mark it as “Not spam”.

Thanks, hope this helps!

It’s weird. I received an email when you posted in this thread as I had subscribed to it. But I’ve yet to receive any emails for the following thread despite also being subscribed to it.

I’ve tried unsubscribing then re-subscribing. Swearing at my computer monitor. Everything! It may just be a glitch with that thread.
Oh and I’ve checked Spam.

Even tho i'm subscribed i'm not getting any email notifications.

Hmm, did you check the spam folder on your email service?

Yeah, nothing.

OK, I’ll look into it. Thanks for reporting!

Thanks a lot CM2010! Thanks to your report I was able to squash another bug in the system. (Your subscription to this particular thread was an edge case that I’ve never been able to test before on my own.)

Now, everyone who has had problems with not receiving the notification e-mails, please subscribe to some threads and monitor the activity of the threads and the notification e-mails you receive. I think it should work a lot better now.