lskohn

Don't think these were deleted or privatized - from the thread titles, they seem innocuous.

I suspected that there was a setting that someone - administrator, moderator - could set...this is most likely the case, particularly in view of the comment below.

If you are going to use "expire" I vote for a 48-hour timeframe - that should be enough for most of us to catch up on our subscription emails.
(I appreciate mods' diligence in keeping the forest of threads pretty organized, which seems to have increased in the past year or so - just want to be able to follow something that has been moved!)

FFlash

I have subscribed to many threads/forums which are of interest to me, but I have found an odd behaviour about the notification frequency of automatic e-mails I get in my mailbox.

When I am very active on FT, I start to get a flood of auto-notifications by email.
When I am absent from FT for multiple days, those auto-notifications dry up and I get nothing.

The thing is, that when I am active, I am well on page about discussions and do not actually need those auto-notifications. Sometimes they are even replies that I have already read on FT before they post to my mailbox.

In contrast, when I am away for days for whatever reasons, I would like to get those notifications to stay tuned about interesting discussions.

I don't know if other people feel it the same way, but for me the auto-notification system works against my wish. Don't know if I can do something about that...

IBobi

You get one notification on a thread until you check that thread again, no matter how many new posts have been made there.

FFlash

I am not sure if it is intended as you describe but I have been eyeing recent days the notification behaviour and it is not definitely like that.

What is certain is that the only threads I get a daily notif irrespective of what I do are:
Hotel deals, MR deals and Premium fare deals. Actually I should be happy, those are the only threads I want to have eye on, the rest I shall just unsubscribe now

dkerr

Something is broken with notifications. I am not receiving notifications for threads I follow, nor for private messages that I receive.

Is this a known problem? Is there a way to fix it? I have tried unsubscribing and resubscribing to a forum with no success.

Thanks
DAK

jackal

Actually, you get one notification about activity in a given thread until you log into FT (or access the FT site while logged in). After you log in, notifications are re-set and you will receive another email notification about the next update to a given thread, even if you did not actually view that thread.

Forum notifications are different than thread notifications. Thread notifications work as I described above. Forum notifications are sent to you on the schedule you choose (daily, weekly, etc.) regardless of your activity on the forum.

17jwblue17

I am not receiving thread subscriptions.
Nothing in Spam.

I am going to try adding the subscriptions e-mail address to my safe senders list.

What is it?

ranhan429

Hi FT,

I'm new here. I am active on the forums on DDF - but there I am able to subscribe to threads with Tapatalk. How do you guys subscribe to threads here? Trying to expand my base a bit to FT - but having a tough time figuring out how I can subscribe to threads to keep up to date and read the new posts.

PS -- I have an Android. Any help appreciated!
PSS -- I hit "Instant Email Notification" after I finish posting, but after I receive an email and I click on it to see what has been written it says you have been unsubscribed.

TIA!

danville 1K

Go to your control panel, click on Messaging and Notification, and under Default Thread Description Mode pull down to Instant Email Notification.

ranhan429

yay - thanks!!

danville 1K

You're welcome! And welcome to FT!

jackal

Also, anything you subscribe to will appear in your "MyFlyerTalk" (icon at the top right of most pages on FT, or here). In fact, I prefer to not subscribe by email (I get too many emails as-is) unless it's a thread with potentially urgent information) and simply subscribe with no email notifications; I then make MyFlyerTalk my first point of entry on FT each day.

Of course, I am usually checking FT 5+ times a day; if you rarely visit FT, you may prefer email notifications.

mallomar

Where is instant notifications? I click on thread tools and don't see it, though it says I'm subscribed to the thread. I'd like to get email when a new post is posted in a certain thread which is what I imagine instant notification is (actually, that's what I thought subscribe was), but I don't see it anywhere.

IBobi

Unsubscribe from the thread, then resubscribe. You will get to choose instant then.

You will not get a notification every time there is a new post; only the first new post generates a notification. When you go back and read the thread, it resets again.

mallomar

Thanks!