ARCHIVE: 2012-2016 Subscription notifications, questions, problems, etc.
Jul 6, 2014 | 12:45 pm
#31
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I am always logged into FT
Jul 6, 2014 | 6:46 pm
#32
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You misunderstood the question... I stay logged in as well, but I'm not browsing FT 24 hours every day.
Are you actually looking at the FT forums immediately after receiving the subscription email, or is it a while later? If it's the latter, that part of the email you receive that I quoted above would explain why you only get one email and not several.
Are you actually looking at the FT forums immediately after receiving the subscription email, or is it a while later? If it's the latter, that part of the email you receive that I quoted above would explain why you only get one email and not several.
Jul 6, 2014 | 8:53 pm
#33
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You misunderstood the question... I stay logged in as well, but I'm not browsing FT 24 hours every day.
Are you actually looking at the FT forums immediately after receiving the subscription email, or is it a while later? If it's the latter, that part of the email you receive that I quoted above would explain why you only get one email and not several.
Are you actually looking at the FT forums immediately after receiving the subscription email, or is it a while later? If it's the latter, that part of the email you receive that I quoted above would explain why you only get one email and not several.
I will tell you I often want to reply to a FT message as soon as I see a notification come to my email so I dont usually wait. And even on threads I do wait on, I still get more notifications. If anything it almost seems random that some threads send me everything and others nothing.
I had started a thread the other day and got one reply soon after. I was going to wait for more before going in. Later I decided to check anyway and there were like 10 people talking. Strange I saw no emails on this. Had I not checked I may have never seen them for a while.
Jul 7, 2014 | 2:22 am
#34
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
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If you subscribe to a thread, you will get a notification that someone posted in it after you last visited the thread. Thats it. Subsequent posts will not be forwarded. If you then visit the thread, read the response and the 15 after that, it will again notify you when someone posts in it.
Clear as mud?
Clear as mud?
Last edited by JDiver; Aug 29, 2017 at 10:17 am Reason: Bold for emphasis
Jul 7, 2014 | 4:52 am
#35
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read it or weep, it seems. ok got it. oh well.
which is funny, cuz like I said, there are some threads for which I get instant email updates all the time and I only rarely view them.
which is funny, cuz like I said, there are some threads for which I get instant email updates all the time and I only rarely view them.
Jul 7, 2014 | 5:14 am
#36
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
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RSS feeds of individual threads may have been option once, don't know why it never came about: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...l-threads.html
Aug 14, 2014 | 12:27 am
#37
Join Date: Aug 2014
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Stupid Question but.... Forum Subscriptions
I know I'm gonna feel like an idiot but ...... I can't figure it out.
I am new (obviously) and I went to some forums that I want to review.
United, Thailand, SPG, Thai Airways, etc... To name a few.
I clicked on Subscribe and get Daily Email updates.
As of today NO email updates showing new posts or such.
So please tell me how stupid I am that I can't get any email updates. I did look in spam folder... Nothing...
I am new (obviously) and I went to some forums that I want to review.
United, Thailand, SPG, Thai Airways, etc... To name a few.
I clicked on Subscribe and get Daily Email updates.
As of today NO email updates showing new posts or such.
So please tell me how stupid I am that I can't get any email updates. I did look in spam folder... Nothing...
Aug 15, 2014 | 3:32 am
#38
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Denver
Posts: 2,396
Welcome to FlyerTalk! I cannot help you with getting email notifications for forum subscriptions, but in case you're not already aware, the MyFlyerTalk feature may work equally well or better:
If you set MyFlyerTalk as your FT bookmark, you can easily check in to see the status of your subscribed threads and forums. In the screenshot below, subscribed threads with new activity appear at the top (orange box) only threads with new posts are listed. Subscribed forums with new posts or threads are indicated by a bulletin board icon with two papers (green circle), while forums with no new activity have a greyed out icon with only one sheet of paper (purple circle):
If you set MyFlyerTalk as your FT bookmark, you can easily check in to see the status of your subscribed threads and forums. In the screenshot below, subscribed threads with new activity appear at the top (orange box) only threads with new posts are listed. Subscribed forums with new posts or threads are indicated by a bulletin board icon with two papers (green circle), while forums with no new activity have a greyed out icon with only one sheet of paper (purple circle):
Aug 26, 2014 | 10:46 pm
#39
Join Date: Dec 2006
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If you subscribe to a thread, you will get a notification that someone posted in it after you last visited the thread. Thats it. Subsequent posts will not be forwarded. If you then visit the thread, read the response and the 15 after that, it will again notify you when someone posts in it.
I am not even getting the initial notification that someone responded to a thread I subscribed to.
Regardless, I would like notifications of all my threads I've subscribed to, not whether or not I've received a notification before or not. In my experience, other forums work this way, even blog post comments can. As a forum admin, I always wanted these to work to get people to come back, the owners of FT should want this. Strange.
Sep 6, 2014 | 1:07 am
#40
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Daily notifications are back, I guess. Just (literally mere moments ago), I got a batch of emails for forums I'd forgotten I'd subscribed to.
Sep 6, 2014 | 7:29 am
#41
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Dec 17, 2014 | 2:19 pm
#42
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Bug or feature? Clicking on link to mod-moved thread doesn't redirect to new location
I THINK this is new-ish (within past 90 days??) behavior:
I subscribe to a couple of forums/fora, with daily emails listing new and updated threads. I believe that it used to be the case that when a moderator moved a thread that had already been listed in the daily email, my clicking on the link to the original location in the email would redirect to the new location, and I'd be all set.
Several weeks ago, at least, I noticed that when I click on a moved thread, I now get the message that the thread doesn't exist and contact the administrator, with no indication of where the errant thread has gone.
Was there a change? Does anyone care? I liked the old behavior, myself.
I subscribe to a couple of forums/fora, with daily emails listing new and updated threads. I believe that it used to be the case that when a moderator moved a thread that had already been listed in the daily email, my clicking on the link to the original location in the email would redirect to the new location, and I'd be all set.
Several weeks ago, at least, I noticed that when I click on a moved thread, I now get the message that the thread doesn't exist and contact the administrator, with no indication of where the errant thread has gone.
Was there a change? Does anyone care? I liked the old behavior, myself.
Dec 17, 2014 | 2:42 pm
#43
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I THINK this is new-ish (within past 90 days??) behavior:
I subscribe to a couple of forums/fora, with daily emails listing new and updated threads. I believe that it used to be the case that when a moderator moved a thread that had already been listed in the daily email, my clicking on the link to the original location in the email would redirect to the new location, and I'd be all set.
Several weeks ago, at least, I noticed that when I click on a moved thread, I now get the message that the thread doesn't exist and contact the administrator, with no indication of where the errant thread has gone.
Was there a change? Does anyone care? I liked the old behavior, myself.
I subscribe to a couple of forums/fora, with daily emails listing new and updated threads. I believe that it used to be the case that when a moderator moved a thread that had already been listed in the daily email, my clicking on the link to the original location in the email would redirect to the new location, and I'd be all set.
Several weeks ago, at least, I noticed that when I click on a moved thread, I now get the message that the thread doesn't exist and contact the administrator, with no indication of where the errant thread has gone.
Was there a change? Does anyone care? I liked the old behavior, myself.
Dec 17, 2014 | 2:44 pm
#44
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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I THINK this is new-ish (within past 90 days??) behavior:
I subscribe to a couple of forums/fora, with daily emails listing new and updated threads. I believe that it used to be the case that when a moderator moved a thread that had already been listed in the daily email, my clicking on the link to the original location in the email would redirect to the new location, and I'd be all set.
Several weeks ago, at least, I noticed that when I click on a moved thread, I now get the message that the thread doesn't exist and contact the administrator, with no indication of where the errant thread has gone.
Was there a change? Does anyone care? I liked the old behavior, myself.
I subscribe to a couple of forums/fora, with daily emails listing new and updated threads. I believe that it used to be the case that when a moderator moved a thread that had already been listed in the daily email, my clicking on the link to the original location in the email would redirect to the new location, and I'd be all set.
Several weeks ago, at least, I noticed that when I click on a moved thread, I now get the message that the thread doesn't exist and contact the administrator, with no indication of where the errant thread has gone.
Was there a change? Does anyone care? I liked the old behavior, myself.
Dec 18, 2014 | 8:11 am
#45
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In that case, I can't possibly see the utility of the "expire" option and probably won't ever use it again, since the only reason I ever used it was to make it so the redirect didn't clutter up the forum after it ceased to be useful.