DidierKlein 729
@nilrog To avoid being spammed by new content just go to your notification settings and select the things for which you want to receive emails.
I personnally changed most of the settings to not receive emails (except for private message and moderator stuff).
And i also selected this option:
One email per week with all new content from that week
so i just receive one mail for all the content i follow (and i have a lot of topics due to the autofollow) it works perfectly for me.
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SandervG 1,521
Some information regarding the forum notifications:
Automatically follow content
There are 2 ways you can start following content. Either automatically, or manually. These 2 options above allow you to configure when you start following content automatically.
Besides automatically, you can also choose to follow content manually, whenever you see something interesting. When you want to follow a category or topic manually, click the follow button at the top right corner, it's on almost every page. When you select content manually that you want to follow, you get the option to configure in what frequency you want to receive updates.
You do not get the option to configure the notification interval when you follow content automatically, therefore you have the option to configure your preferences in your notification settings.
This means you receive a notification when new content is created. The definition of notification and content relies on the rest of your configuration. A notification can be an email, desktop notification and/or onsite (via the bell).
You only receive one email per day with a collection of all notifications related to content which you started following automatically
You only receive one email per week with a collection of all notifications related to content which you started following automatically
Regarding the content you follow automatically, you will receive no notifications or emails at all.
Notification preferences
This is related to onsite notifications. You can receive a popup whenever you receive a personal message.
The forum registers a last_visit timestamp in the database which is updated when your user account visits the community again. It is only triggered when you actively visit the community. It is not triggered when your browser remembers your login and you browse the internet, or when you visit the forum but you are logged out. It is related to notifications from the same source. Example; if there are 3 topics you follow and all receive 5 replies during your absence, you only get 3 notifications (onsite and/or email). 1 for each topic. Which notification you receive, onsite and/or email, depends on your notification preferences as in the screenshot above.
Hope this helps everyone configuring the best preferences! Let me know if you have any further questions
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nilrog 103
Unfortunately this option doesn't work as we believe it should, and how you now also explained it,....the forum still sends an email for every update to a post even though you never visit the forum. Sp if you are following a lot of popular posts you will get "spammed".
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