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This site is so confusing I can't even figure out how to make it actually notify me when someone mentions me by name (using the @ symbol). I don't want to get EMAIL notifications. I deliberately turned all those off. I just want to be notified here, when I'm logged in, when someone is trying to talk to me.
The little bell icon in the upper right corner sometimes gets an orange dot on it, but when I click it, it says there are no notifications. It does this frequently. Orange dot. I click it. It says "no notifications".
On the "Come introduce yourself" thread, I left a comment. rosemow replied to it and addressed me by name (using @ symbol). But I did not get any notification. I found the reply addressed to me only because I happened to go back to that thread.
I don't want notifications sent to my email. Isn't there any way to set it up so that we get notifications here on the forum? Or is email the only way?
GlacierSnowGhost You should get a notification of a mention, but it seems that this site is failing to register notifications in general at busier times, or perhaps times where the host is doing maintenance. See if you get one from this reply.
For reference, it should look like this:
Hi puzzlezaddict I got the orange light appearing on the bell icon. But when I clicked the icon it still said "no notifications". I only saw your reply here because I came back to this thread to see if anyone had responded. In other words, I have to go looking for people mentioning me by actually checking comments I left on threads. I don't get a notification.
Not only that, but while I was typing this reply, I was suddenly logged out (I didn't do it!) and I had to log back in. This forum seems like it's still pretty glitchy.
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After getting suddenly logged out, I now magically have all the notifications. Not sure if it will keep working though.One more question about notifications. Is it possible to set it so that it doesn't notify me every time someone likes one of my posts? I don't need to see that and it just clutters up the list of notifications. I don't really want all those badge and level notifications either. I only want to be notified when there are new posts on threads I am following or when someone actually mentions me specifically.
Those notifications are useless, because while they notify you that there are new posts, they don't take you directly to the posts that generated them. So you go back to the thread and then you need to dig very deep to try and identify what the new post is so you can read it. It is difficult enough to do that on short threads with about 30 posts, but it will be impossible to do that on long threads with hundreds of replies.
