New Forum Issue: Batch Notification Emails

DavidZemon

This one will drive me bonkers. I'm getting emailed after every post on a thread that I'm following. I've never seen such idiotic forum software that doesn't have a setting for this. Why am I unable to switch between batch and instant emails? After two hours, I had 53 emails from this new forum.

jmg

I found some email settings buried under
Notification Preferences
 but you are right, not good defaults.

Bump

I can look into the emailing/notification options to make the defaults for new users less annoyingly. More importantly, were you able to locate the options and change them?
Did the changes workout for you?

localroger

It is extremely unintuitive to find the notification options and the notifications are a *real* immediate problem.  I apparently inhereted over 1,000 bookmarks and the first page of my inbox filled up with emails in a couple of hours.  Even with jmg's hint it took about 20 minutes to find them (for example, it's very un-obvious taht you have to click your own username to get to profile, then edit, then GAAAH I don't even remember exactly what I did now but eventually I found them.  I actually configured Yahoo (another PITA as it required switching to their new and unimproved infinitely-autoloading interface to get to the settings) to filter forum emails to a new folder.  Given how the old forum acted email notifications should be COMPLETELY OFF by default for imported users until we learn how to set this thing up.

DavidZemon

I can look into the emailing/notification options to make the defaults for new users less annoyingly. More importantly, were you able to locate the options and change them?
Did the changes workout for you?

I don't remember what the default notif. settings were, but one of the first things I did when I noticed the new forum was change them all on. Usually, I don't get a lot of email and I like to stay connected, so it works well for me. This is the only forum software I've ever seen that sends repeated emails, one for every new post, even though I haven't been back to the forums yet. Bad bad bad. I want email notifications when someone posts, but I don't need a new email for every post since the last time I visited.
As soon as I saw the 50 new emails, I turned off all notifications. To directly answer your question, yes, the changes did work out for me.

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

I, too, have turned off all notifications. I get enough junk email as it is, without having to be informed when someone has responded to one of my posts. I can discover that on my own, thanks.
-Phil

koehler

Not bright to have made/left that as the default notification.

However, I found it only moderately difficult to find.
Only pain was that when you click on your username, there is a Notifications tab on the left, which does not do what you thing it should. Clicking on right-side Edit Profile resolves it, though its rather odd why it isn't in the Notifications tab.