topic Re: Notifications in Q Talk

Notifications

Krimpette — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 18:42:32 GMT

Wondering why my "notifications" are showing 11 hearts from one poster on the same post all at the same time. Can't be that she liked my post so much!!!!! Actually, I thought you could only "heart" once for a particular post.

Re: Notifications

Keyai — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 18:46:06 GMT

@Krimpette wrote:

Wondering why my "notifications" are showing 11 hearts from one poster on the same post all at the same time. Can't be that she liked my post so much!!!!! Actually, I thought you could only "heart" once for a particular post.

Hi @Krimpette

@If someone edits a post that you were @ mentioned then you will receive multiple notifications. If your @ mention is then quoted that will also trigger additional notifications. I logged in one morning to 25 notifications from one poster who had wanted my attention, however there was only one post.

I hope my explanation makes sense.

Re: Notifications

Krimpette — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:21:52 GMT

Wow! That means I've now gotten 16 hearts for my single post. Whew!

Re: Notifications

January121 — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 22:10:47 GMT

@Krimpette .... the exact Sam thing happened to me today ....could be a system bug" !!!

Re: Notifications

Krimpette — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:01:57 GMT

I would guess that there's some sort of a bug also. When I click on "notifications", it shows 2 from you at exactly the same time on this post. Yet, if you look at the "hearts", shows only one. I'm confused! Sure hope that this isn't the way posters are "ranked", if indeed there is a bug.

Re: Notifications

bebe777 — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:26:29 GMT

@Keyai-QVC wrote:
@Krimpette wrote:
Wondering why my "notifications" are showing 11 hearts from one poster on the same post all at the same time. Can't be that she liked my post so much!!!!! Actually, I thought you could only "heart" once for a particular post.

Hi @Krimpette

@If someone edits a post that you were @ mentioned then you will receive multiple notifications. If your @ mention is then quoted that will also trigger additional notifications. I
logged in one morning to 25 notifications from one poster who had wanted my attention, however there was only one post.

I hope my explanation makes sense.

@Keyai Lol, apologies because I think that may have been me.

I love the new Notification system and I find it extremely helpful. However it took me a while to realize that when I edit a post, then I'm likely to trigger a brand-new notification to anyone that I've notified in that post. -- These days, I still wind up sending out multiple notifications when I read edit a post but, hopefully, not nearly as many as I did that day.

-- bebe

Re: Notifications

dooBdoo — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:20:01 GMT

@Keyai, and everyone, good morning!

I think there might be a website glitch. I've been noticing multiple notifications when one person "hearts" one of my posts. I see the pop-up several times if I'm currently logged in and active and I also see multiple listings of the same "heart" activity in my Notification Feed. Not a big problem in the scheme of things, but since I saw @Krimpette's thread I wanted to mention it.

Re: Notifications

bebe777 — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:10:57 GMT

@dooBdoo wrote:

@Keyai, and everyone, good morning!

I think there might be a website glitch. I've been noticing multiple notifications when one person "hearts" one of my posts. I see the pop-up several times if I'm currently logged in and active and I also see multiple listings of the same "heart" activity in my Notification Feed. Not a big problem in the scheme of things, but since I saw @Krimpette's thread I wanted to mention it.

@dooBdoo and @Keyai I've been thinking about this ever since I read @Krimpette 's thread.

I'm a huge fan of the heart system (and I'm always hearting away), but frequently my heart doesn't seem to take on the very first try. So I wait 5-10 seconds and then I give it a second try. I may give it up to 5 tries before finally giving up.

If I happen to read the same post later, I'll notice that sometimes that what I had thought were unsuccessful heart attempts finally resulted in hearting success. -- On the other hand, sometimes my hearting attempts were unsuccessful.

So I'm wondering if there is sometimes a delay between when I heart a post and when it shows me that the heart actually took.

Hopefully that makes sense.

-- bebe

Re: Notifications

apple1964 — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:12:16 GMT

N/M

Re: Notifications

stevieb — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:53:41 GMT

Good to know that editing kicks off a whole new notification. On the one hand, I like that folks I've alerted might see that I've made a change to my post, on the other hand, when merely going back to correct typos... well, I guess it is what it is... I guess I could skip the more insignificant corrections and just edit when I really want to add to or otherwise change something I've said in a meaningful way...

Re: Notifications

dooBdoo — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:23:01 GMT

@Keyai, Not sure if this issue of multiple notifications is still considered a work in progress... but I submitted a post this morning with the "@" notification to one person, then I edited it one time and it wasn't quoted by anyone else. However, the person received 10 notifications from my one post.

When she told me I felt like I had been shouting at her without knowing it!

Just a heads up for the tech staff.

Re: Notifications

chickenbutt — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:41:32 GMT

Is there a way for one to turn this 'notification' thing off completely?

I don't pay it any mind but now and then it gets in the way and I'd rather just not see it at all. It seems like that should be an option.

I'm just here to read/post on a board. I am not interested in a Twitter or Facebook experience.

Just wondering. TIA for any advice.

Re: Notifications

LTT1 — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:51:04 GMT

@chickenbutt@dooBdoo@stevieb

The notifications is the only way I can remember to go back and check what was posted after I posted.

This is how I use them.. and it is a "shortcut" for me... that I would be lost without.

Also, since it takes me to my post, which was hearted, I then can FIND my post easily if it is several pages back.

For those who find it cumbersome... if it could be turned off for them that would be great.

Re: Notifications

chickenbutt — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:00:44 GMT

Hi Loves! Oh, I wouldn't wish to take anything away from anybody else. I just like choice with stuff like this. It isn't something I use at all and would love to just 'uncheck' a box but, going all through settings, I haven't been able to find that box. I hope there's a box.

ETA - I forgot to mention that i really don't like the new 'being called out' thing they have. I'm probably in the minority and I do get that. I just want to enjoy myself with others and maybe even learn something new. I've learned lots of stuff here over all the years. But I don't want a Twitter type experience. There's Twitter for that.

Re: Notifications

dooBdoo — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:51:40 GMT

@LTT1 wrote:
@chickenbutt @dooBdoo @stevieb
The notifications is the only way I can remember to go back and check what was posted after I posted.
This is how I use them.. and it is a "shortcut" for me... that I would be lost without.
Also, since it takes me to my post, which was hearted, I then can FIND my post easily if it is several pages back.

For those who find it cumbersome... if it could be turned off for them that would be great.

Hi, @LTT1 and @chickenbutt. I looked around and don't see any way to disable notifications. I do understand a few posters have an issue with them, but I have trouble understanding the reason. I have the same opinion as you, @LTT1. It's been so helpful -- from my perspective -- to be able to know when someone answers one of my posts, asks me a question, etc., by checking my Notification Feed. It provides more of a "flow" to the conversations and eliminates a lot of the shout-out threads and attempts to find a poster online when we are if we're trying to catch up with them.

But just like the "ignore" feature we used to have, it would be nice to offer these options for those who want them. The support team members are watching the threads and listening to our concerns, and over time we're seeing modifications within the limits of the site software.

Re: Notifications

LTT1 — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:25:05 GMT

@dooBdoo@chickenbutt

This is my opinion only because I don't know what the designers of this software had in mind...perhaps they wanted "hearts" to increase good will between posters? Perhaps they thought this method of acknowledging other posts (like FB thumbs up) would decrease snarking??? Just a thought...

Re: Notifications

bebe777 — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:54:57 GMT

@dooBdoo wrote:
@LTT1 wrote:
@chickenbutt @dooBdoo @stevieb
The notifications is the only way I can remember to go back and check what was posted after I posted.
This is how I use them.. and it is a "shortcut" for me... that I would be lost without.
Also, since it takes me to my post, which was hearted, I then can FIND my post easily if it is several pages back.

For those who find it cumbersome... if it could be turned off for them that would be great.

Hi, @LTT1 and @chickenbutt. I looked around and don't see any way to disable notifications. I do understand a few posters have an issue with them, but I have trouble understanding the reason. I have the same opinion as you, @LTT1. It's been so helpful -- from my perspective -- to be able to know when someone answers one of my posts, asks me a question, etc., by checking my Notification Feed. It provides more of a "flow" to the conversations and eliminates a lot of the shout-out threads and attempts to find a poster online when we are if we're trying to catch up with them.

But just like the "ignore" feature we used to have, it would be nice to offer these options for those who want them. The support team members are watching the threads and listening to our concerns, and over time we're seeing modifications within the limits of the site software.

@LTT1 and @dooBdoo I love the Notifications feature as well. It's probably my favorite feature that they added to the forum.

It's so helpful in a number of ways but I particularly like using it to let other forum members know that there's an OTO available. OTOs are time sensitive, so it's great to be able to share this info no real time.

-- bebe