Watched threads not causing alerts.

[AG31]

I wish I could give you a pattern, but I'm pretty sure that I'm not always getting an alert when a person posts in a watched thread. I understand that I will only get an alert once per some time period (log on session?), but I have seen many new posts in watched threads that have occurred since my last session, but no alert for that thread. Is something broken?

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[Britva415]

It's because you got an alert once and didn't go read the thread at that time. So the site thinks you're already behind on alerts, and the one it already sent is the one it's waiting for you to catch up on. It won't send new alerts on that thread until the old post gets read. It thinks you already know to go look at the thread, because it already sent you an alert about it, and the whole problem is that it knows you didn't read it.

The way to fix this is to go through and mark all the forums as read, using the "mark read" button at the top of each forum page - or at least the forums your watched threads are in.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I just realized that I haven't received an alert about the More Humour thread in months. It's pretty active, and I have it watched.

@Manu?

-Annie

 

[Britva415]

I just realized that I haven't received an alert about the More Humour thread in months. It's pretty active, and I have it watched.

@Manu?

-Annie

A work-around is to “Mark read” the forum which the thread of interest belongs to. Either that or view every page of the thread since the last time you were notified.

This re-sets the “watch” so that the site knows you have already read the last post it notified you about in that thread.

If you get notified but fail to read the post you got notified about, the “Watch” feature will not notify you about that thread again until you do view that last one you got notified about.