Subscription issues

[Patrick McHugh]

On this site I will post something and sometimes I will get email notifications and sometimes I won't. It seems like i'll get the first few and then when the thread gets past the first page or two they stop coming. Any ideas?

[Paul in N FL]

On this site I will post something and sometimes I will get email notifications and sometimes I won't. It seems like i'll get the first few and then when the thread gets past the first page or two they stop coming. Any ideas?

Spam folder? Maybe your email client thinks that too many mye28 notifications are bad for you.

[Patrick McHugh]

On this site I will post something and sometimes I will get email notifications and sometimes I won't. It seems like i'll get the first few and then when the thread gets past the first page or two they stop coming. Any ideas?

Spam folder? Maybe your email client thinks that too many mye28 notifications are bad for you.

I checked, nuthin

[My528e.awesome]

On this site I will post something and sometimes I will get email notifications and sometimes I won't. It seems like i'll get the first few and then when the thread gets past the first page or two they stop coming. Any ideas?

X2
It does the exact same thing to me.

[Justin_FL]

Are you visiting the site and viewing the thread? If you don't view the thread when signed into your account, the forum software is not going to continue to notify you when there are new posts as it sees the thread in the unread state. When you haven't read the thread since the last email notification of a new post, the logic goes that it makes no sense to keep sending you more notification messages to your inbox each time there is another response after the first notification in an effort to not annoy users. On larger forums with more traffic, if a post gets 100 new posts since the last time you read it after a few hours, you can imagine sorting through your email will be a PITA and that's why it is the way it is.

So you only get one email per thread until you read it, which sets the thread into the "read" state and then the next post will trigger the notification action again as the thread is now "unread".

[Patrick McHugh]

Are you visiting the site and viewing the thread? If you don't view the thread when signed into your account, the forum software is not going to continue to notify you when there are new posts as it sees the thread in the unread state. When you haven't read the thread since the last email notification of a new post, the logic goes that it makes no sense to keep sending you more notification messages to your inbox each time there is another response after the first notification in an effort to not annoy users. On larger forums with more traffic, if a post gets 100 new posts since the last time you read it after a few hours, you can imagine sorting through your email will be a PITA and that's why it is the way it is.

So you only get one email per thread until you read it, which sets the thread into the "read" state and then the next post will trigger the notification action again as the thread is now "unread".

Yeah, I will check out a thread i'm interested in, comment and it will notify when the next guy posts something, then the thing goes viral and I get nothing and end up missing all of the fun.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I will check out a thread i'm interested in, comment and it will notify when the next guy posts something, then the thing goes viral and I get nothing and end up missing all of the fun.

Do you check the thread via a logged in handle every time you get a notification? Like Justin says, you won't get another notification until the forum software registers that you've looked at that specific thread. Not just that you've checked in on the board, you need to open the thread in question.

Sorry if I'm insulting your intelligence, I just want to make sure.

Jeremy

[Patrick McHugh]

Yeah, I will check out a thread i'm interested in, comment and it will notify when the next guy posts something, then the thing goes viral and I get nothing and end up missing all of the fun.

Do you check the thread via a logged in handle every time you get a notification? Like Justin says, you won't get another notification until the forum software registers that you've looked at that specific thread. Not just that you've checked in on the board, you need to open the thread in question.

Sorry if I'm insulting your intelligence, I just want to make sure.

Jeremy

I'm not sure... I suppose I just click on the email link and check it out. Unless I respond I don't think it logs in. I suppose that's the answer. I'd rather get all the emails.