Anyone else have this problem?

[Bob B]

I am intermittently not getting notifications from threads I am following.

Sometimes when I am browsing thru new posts I will see a thread with new posts that I am following and I didn't get a notification. The post will have the little eye looking symbol indicating I am following. If I unwatch the thread and then turn on watch again it seems to clear it up.
I thought maybe I had missed a notification .... so I wouldn't be notified again of a new post to that thread until I viewed the thread .... but after carefully making sure I look at all notification, it still happens once in a while.
I'm not sure how to document proof of the issue .... just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this.

Also, what is supposed to happen when you follow someone. I don't seem to get notifications of their activity. The same thing has happened where I see a post when scanning new posts that is from someone I am following.

 

[MisterSandals]

I am intermittently not getting notifications from threads I am following.

I am seeing the same issues. I turned off email notifications and then i stopped getting a lot of the "Alerts" notifications. I turned the email notifications back on but that did not fix the issue.

 

[Bob B]

I am seeing the same issues. I turned off email notifications and then i stopped getting a lot of the "Alerts" notifications. I turned the email notifications back on but that did not fix the issue.

Sometimes I just get a notification on the forum and no email, but I think that is times I have commented and it automatically follows a thread. There may be a setting for that but I haven't been too concerned about that.
There are other ones where I manually select follow and email notifications and that is the ones that sometimes seem to get lost intermittently.

 

[MisterSandals]

Yea, i cannot find a pattern. I just got a notification for your post on here just fine. Why some of the others do not do this, I dunno.

 

[Bob B]

Most of the time it is fine for me .... just very intermittent I find a thread I wasn't notified.

 

[Steve_S]

There are different notifications. The initial default is to get an e-mail notification for a LOT if not everything, then you can chose if you want email or not, not is better because it creates a LOT of load on the server which slows things up. It's best to set things up, so PM's get an email notification and everything else just gives a simple notification on the site. Even that can LAG when the system is busy / loaded with users.
--> If you skip a message that gave you a notification and read through the rest of the list, it will forget that one notification and future notifications on the thread you skipped. It is a weird behaviour to be sure.

@Will Prowse I would suggest, that making a change to the Forum Software, to reduce the EMail Notification to PM's Only as the default would lighten the load off the server. I suspect the lag will only get worse unless some mitigation is implemented to prevent loading the server. Things are only gonna get busier !

 

[Bob142]

Also, what is supposed to happen when you follow someone. I don't seem to get notifications of their activity. The same thing has happened where I see a post when scanning new posts that is from someone I am following.

Two things happen when you follow someone.

1) Members you follow get highlighted so you can see when they are online.



2) You have a news feed that collects all of the activity of the people you follow.

 

[Will Prowse]

I leave it up to the individual accounts for email notifications. I am not going to "turn it off" as Steve suggested. I let the members decide what they want.

Very strange bug.

 

[SCClockDr]

I suspect there may be a time weighted parameter (week or two) that prevents notifications once it expires. I've noticed this behavior in this & other forums I frequent when I go silent for a while.

 

[MrNatural22]

All my notifications of posts i follow or participate in, go to my junk mail. Cant seem to solve that but It's not really a problem I mind as i usually check in on the forum each day and they show in the alerts now that I so much time on my hands.

 

[Steve_S]

I leave it up to the individual accounts for email notifications. I am not going to "turn it off" as Steve suggested. I let the members decide what they want.

Very strange bug.

I did not say Turn it OFF, just switch the default so when a new user creates an account, the default isn't to send email automatically, let them turn that n manually if they want to get spammed for every message they reply to and get auto-notified.

Once you reply to a post, it will auto-notify you. You have to UN-Watch the Thread, then Re-Watch the thread and select NO EMAIL, You can also change the behaviours in your user settings page BUT it does not change the previous settings on the individual threads.

 

[Steve_S]

All my notifications of posts i follow or participate in, go to my junk mail. Cant seem to solve that but It's not really a problem I mind as i usually check in on the forum each day and they show in the alerts now that I so much time on my hands.

once you see the Forum E-Mail in Spam, you should be able to select it and click on "Not Spam". It works for me, with GMail & Outlook.

 

[Bob B]

Two things happen when you follow someone.

1) Members you follow get highlighted so you can see when they are online.
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2) You have a news feed that collects all of the activity of the people you follow.
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Thanks @Bob142 .... some good stuff in there I didn't know .... and I got an email notification.

 

[Bob B]

All my notifications of posts i follow or participate in, go to my junk mail. Cant seem to solve that but It's not really a problem I mind as i usually check in on the forum each day and they show in the alerts now that I so much time on my hands.

Mine do as well .... I could probably resolve that, but I have gotten so used to looking for them there it kinda separates them from the other emails.

 

[Archetype-IS]

There is still a delay on notifications. Not sure if the traffics for the site is high or slow on the server side. Could someone look into it. Thanks.

 

[HRTKD]

My notifications are working correctly and in a timely manner.

If you get a notification of a new post in a thread but you don't go to that thread then in most forums you won't get another notification when a new post is made until after you go view the thread.