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Title: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: Reckall on July 13, 2022, 02:57:20 PM
Around last week I started getting A LOT of messages from theRPGsite about the fact that someone had "replied in a thread I was following".

I thought it was a glitch, as I never activated such a request. Today I had a bit of time and, after going through the Wiki for the forum, I discovered that on the threads I had posted in the "notify" option was active.

While it was a matter of clicking "Unnotify" ("Yes, I'm certain"), as I said I never checked this option. I'm here since 2009 and I never activated it. It just turned on by itself.

Nothing big but, in my experience, sometimes a small glitch is symptom of some troubles with the forum software. This is why I'm reporting it. Anyone else experienced something similar?

 
Title: Re: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: HappyDaze on July 13, 2022, 03:12:19 PM
I had something like this happen to me before. I had to unsubscibe from each thread individually. It was a real pain in the ass, but that fixed it.
Title: Re: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: Reckall on July 13, 2022, 03:22:22 PM
I had something like this happen to me before. I had to unsubscibe from each thread individually. It was a real pain in the ass, but that fixed it.

Ironically, "Notify" turned on by itself on this thread too.
Title: Re: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: brettmb on July 14, 2022, 10:22:01 AM
Click the Summary menu item from the Profile menu at top. Then click notifications on side bar. This makes it easier to turn them off.
Title: Re: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: Reckall on July 14, 2022, 11:17:56 AM
Click the Summary menu item from the Profile menu at top. Then click notifications on side bar. This makes it easier to turn them off.

I did that (why notifications were checked is beyond me - I never ever visited that page), saved the profile and, guess what?, I got a notification about your very answer. I went again to my profile and notifications were back on. I'm totally sure that I unchecked and saved so it is a bit of a cyber/horror :)

But I can only surmise that there is some glitch in the forum software - a glitch that happened recently, because I'm getting notifications from threads where I posted in, let's say, the last two weeks. Long threads where I last posted months ago don't generate notifications at all.
Title: Re: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: BoxCrayonTales on July 14, 2022, 11:38:49 AM
I disabled notifications globally after the original switch over because I had the problem then.
Title: Re: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: Reckall on July 14, 2022, 11:46:23 AM
I disabled notifications globally after the original switch over because I had the problem then.

Well, notifications turned on again immediately - like, right now. What I can say?
Title: Re: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: brettmb on July 14, 2022, 12:47:48 PM
I’ll look into it when I get a chance.
Title: Re: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: Timothe on July 25, 2022, 12:56:30 PM
Around last week I started getting A LOT of messages from theRPGsite about the fact that someone had "replied in a thread I was following".

I thought it was a glitch, as I never activated such a request. Today I had a bit of time and, after going through the Wiki for the forum, I discovered that on the threads I had posted in the "notify" option was active.

While it was a matter of clicking "Unnotify" ("Yes, I'm certain"), as I said I never checked this option. I'm here since 2009 and I never activated it. It just turned on by itself.

Nothing big but, in my experience, sometimes a small glitch is symptom of some troubles with the forum software. This is why I'm reporting it. Anyone else experienced something similar?

I would actually use that function if I can figure out how to get it to work.
Title: Re: All of sudden I'm being notified of replies
Post by: Timothe on July 25, 2022, 12:57:31 PM
Click the Summary menu item from the Profile menu at top. Then click notifications on side bar. This makes it easier to turn them off.

Thanks. I found it under modify profile, but I swear I’ve never seen that there before.