LOL Me too. I forgot how quickly my inbox fills up. Now if only we could set it up to only send email notifications for threads we start or select to be notified for. Iām picturing SB doing a face-palm right about now. Is there a cake in the area that I may posses and also ingest? O:-)
Ha Ha Ha thatās the word I was trying to think of, Delugedā¦ But really a smiling moment and great way to start the day,
Kronos thread alone I recall at last glance was something like 200+ since last going to the thread which was lesson learned, if you follow go follow more often so that count doesnāt get so high,
You really donāt realize just how many threads youāve been watching or not consistently until you turn on your email one day and suddenly thereās seemingly hundreds of notices.
Iām with PD68 and others and going to be on a unsubscribe mission,
Thank you SB, This upgrade must be just maddening, But Iām sure glad theirs people like you making life for people like me FUN ā¦!!
That pretty much sums it up. But everybody here has been very gracious and patient and appreciative, which makes it a lot easier and much more motivating to get things working.
Update: 02-MAR-2016
Iām now testing another improvement to the email notification system so that it will only send notification emails to users that havenāt been active during the past 10 minutes. (I can easily adjust the time if needed. Note that āactiveā is defined as clicking links or posting, not just having a browser tab open.) I hope this will drastically reduce the amount of notification emails for heavy users during the hours that they are active.
And also remember that the system only sends one email per user thread until the user returns (logged in) to re-visit the thread.
OMG, email notification works again, best news from blf in a long time, iāve been like blind without this function :cowboy_hat_face:
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+1
I usually have 2-3 BLF tabs open in my browser keeping them for later reading or as a reminder, it does look like I am online but I am actually doing something else not related to BLF, and my browser is running all the time (except when I sleep) which means I will miss like 60-70% of replies, hmmm 8-|
Edit:
Wait, what does the āactiveā means? active like logged in / online or like scrolling pages, posting comments which means there are log files with informations on which pages I visited, which comments I read, what button and when I clickedā¦ that is kinda disturbing.
Tracking your āactiveā status doesnāt require logging your actual activity. The site has already been keeping track of āactiveā status since before the upgrade. It shows up on all your posts, under your avatar, as āLast Seenā¦ā
I find it more than useful, I lost track on 90% of interesting topics while notification wasnāt working, it should been no1 on a āto fixā list. If there are no updates in some particular topic/thread for several hours it āfallsā down to page 2-3, a day or two without update and that thread will be lost on god know which page and if OP decides to change title (which happens quite frequently) it might be lost forever if there were no email notifications.
Yes but, information is available, itās like a hole in a wall to a neighbour apartment, only curiosity is what stands between your eye and that holeā¦
P.S. is there a way to turn off this āno notification for last 10 active minutesā āfeatreā?
BLF mostly uses āWeb 1.0ā tech, meaning you send a request for a page, the server sends back the requested page, and then no further interaction happens until you request another page. If you donāt click anything, no data is transferred either way. āActiveā time just means the last time a page was requested by your logged-in account.
Unlike, say, facebook, which has javascript running all the time to chat back and forth between server and client whenever a page is open.
So, the BLF server has no idea whether you have a bunch of tabs open. All it knows is which pages you requested and when. I would assume this is logged in a standard apache access log, with a log rotation system deleting anything older than a given length of time. It probably has a list of requests from the past week, but not from, say, six months ago. And it likely does not track on a per-user basis, but rather a per-IP-address basis. Thatās default on most web servers. IP addresses do not correlate 1-to-1 with users, so it would take some non-trivial effort to figure out who did what based only on the data in the logs.
Note, āWeb 1.0ā is often a good thing. I prefer that all sites be built this way unless they have specific and significant reasons to do otherwise. Like, use āWeb 2.0ā for full-fledged interactive applications like Google Maps and Google Docs, but use āWeb 1.0ā for forums and blogs since they work fine with older technology.
Right, the site has no idea whether you have it loaded in a browser window or tab.
I can disable the 10 minute waiting period if most prefer it that way, but Iām surprised that Iām the only one who wants this feature. I find it very annoying after a day of browsing and posting to receive a plethora of email notifications for updated threads that Iāve already viewed because I saw them under āMy Subscriptionsā or in the āRecent Postsā list.
I actually donāt have the Nginx access log enabled, just the error log. And in any case Drupal canāt even see those logs, and instead keeps its own access log (normally as a table in the database, but can optionally use the syslog) which is retained for 2 days.
I can assure you that putting it as #1 on the todo list would have much easier said than done. O:-) It took me a good solid 20 hours almost non-stop to re-implement the notifications system, as it is custom designed and coded by yours truly. And letās just say that itās a good thing I donāt write code for a living, because Iām AWFUL at it! The most irritating part is that it was working flawlessly with the old site engine, but with this upgrade they went and broke most of the APIs and data structures I had come to know and hate from the old version.
In my personal case itās actually much easier to lose track of something in my email inbox. Regardless of the status of the email notifications system, you might try using the My Subscriptions page a bit more to keep track of posts you donāt want to lose track of.
Iād be glad to if the majority prefers it that way. First Iām going to try to add it as an option, except that Iām running into a bug with the site engine that is preventing me from doing it in the easy and straightforward way I had planned.