Why Not Receiving Thread Updates

If you want to receive e-mail updates, you can click on "Profile" under the top banner and then choose "Edit Profile". Then click on the "Notifications" tab and you have a lot of choices on which things will generate an e-mail to you.

Ryan

Hi Steve

Thanks a lot. I was sure I had set everything but I now realize that I probably did not do a save.

Jerry B

I began receiving forum message notifications from "menu" this morning so it seems that ProBoards and Verizon may have reached an agreement. 

Either that or the change from "The Stamp Forum" to "menu" hasn't yet been caught by Verizon's anti-spam software (I had been receiving notifications for a brief period after the Forum had been established).

When you edit your profile and click on "Notifications", you get a list of options for which you can choose to receive forum notifications or e-mails.  But I don't think there's a way to isolate it down to specific threads - you can get e-mail messages about every thread you've participated in, but you don't have a way of choosing which ones you want to trigger these e-mails.

It's possible to "bookmark" a thread so a little icon comes up next to it so you can keep it visually distinct from the others, but that doesn't give you any special control over receiving e-mails, as far as I know.  If you hover your mouse pointer to the immediate left of the thread title, a small check box appears.  Make a check mark, and then click on the "Actions" button at the top of the thread list.  You have an option to bookmark that thread.  As I said, that has nothing to do with your e-mail notifications, it's just a way of tagging stuff of interest.

Ryan

I use the Participated button in the top right of the screen a lot.  If one of "my" threads has received a new reply since the last time I viewed the thread, there will be a little "NEW" icon in this button, so I know there is something for me to look at.



Ryan

And I'll add one other point: I had a situation recently where I asked a question of someone who had just started a thread the day before. He never came back to reply, even though he was active on some other threads on here.

Now, I imagine I'm old-fashioned and grumpy about this, but especially if I've started a thread, I always go back and check for follow-up discussion. I realize that other people don't, maybe because they don't think of it, but if the notification system were working as it did last month, and if the original poster were set up for notification (a big "if", I realize), then perhaps this wouldn't have happened.

-- Dave

I just spent 20 minutes advising why my scans were missing,
hit enter, and proboards was 'down" lost the whole lot!

I am aware of the problem, and will try again when I regain my composure.

Hi Guys and Gals,
just to let you know where I am at.
Like us all, joining this new forum, and remote hosting has been a learning curve for me,
it was once just “drag and drop” posting images on a forum, too easy, and yes, too expensive.

So, learning Photobucket comes with time and trial, I found out, that although my image albums were “locked”,
random lurkers could just link back to my albums and download all my images.

(That refers to all the “noise” ILS was trying to move/delete at one stage)

I am not averse to sharing my images, but at least I like some effort, using spybots to download my album was not
on. I am not a free scanning resource.

Hence I changed my Album link specifications, and is why my images disappeared
I shall have them up again by end of next week.

To be frank, I dislike this remote hosting, but I don’t abandon ship after sighting the first iceberg, I’ll endure and
see where we go, and offer support best I can.
With retrospect, I feel I rather would endure flat banner ads than remote hosting, but will go along with consensus.
(But definitely no blinking ads, do people really respond to those?)

Looking on the web, it is my opinion we are one of the top three sites, in respect to the quality of scans and
knowledge. It has heaps of promise, and hopefully over the year we can iron out the chinks.
There are heaps of excellent philately sites, but our visuals are outstanding.

Thanks to all the hard work and expense of Jack, and the number of apparent fantastic donations,
we struggle on. I see light at the end of the tunnel, and with our great team of moderators, we can give Jack a rest
sometime.
Rod.