Registered users: You can now get e-mail notifications (again) when somebody replies to your comments

By adamg on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:48am

Time was, UHub had a system for letting you get notified when somebody replied to your comments. Then, that just stopped, weeks, maybe months ago (I didn't notice until somebody asked me about it a few days ago, and I realized I'd somehow deleted the software that handled it).

E-mail notification's back on. I've set the default to "off" (don't want to send somebody e-mail they don't want!). There are a couple of ways to get it back on - and to be notified of posts in certain categories:

First, you need to register an account, and to be logged in with it.

Second, you can do nothing.

In that case, if there's a particular discussion that's going fast and furious and you want to be notified of new comments (you know: Turkey flies into a bicyclist crossing the Green Line tracks just as the mayor is about to dedicate a new skyscraper or something), every UHub post now has a "Subscribe" link at the bottom of the story. Click on that and you'll get notifications of all new replies for that post.

Alternately, if you just want to know when somebody replies to one of your comments (or articles if you post those), you can tell the site to alert you in e-mail - you can do the same thing if you want to be alerted of new posts for particular categories (for example, you could get an alert every time there's a new UHub post about Roslindale or development).

Click on My Account at the top of any page, then the Subscriptions tab and then Settings. Check the box next to "Auto-subscribe to comments." If you ever post an article here, also click on "Auto-subscribe to new content." The third choice is "Auto-subscribe to updated content," but you don't need to check that.

If you'd rather get a bunch of notifications in a single e-mail, rather than getting one for every single reply, check the box next to "Digest mode."

Under Preferences, you can decide when to get notified about replies - as soon as they come into the system, just once a day or something in between (Digest mode would be kind of useless if you pick ASAP for this, would be great for "once a day"). I'd strongly suggest you NOT check "On Updates," because otherwise, you could wind up getting zillions of e-mails when I update my posts (with no copy desk and a maniacal desire to post as quickly as possible, I update posts A LOT with grammatical and factual fixes).

Hit Save Settings and you're done.

To get e-mail notification of new posts in key topics, click Categories at the top of your Subscriptions page. Check off whichever topics you want, and hit Save. It'll use the same settings as above for determining when you'll receive your notifications. NOTE: There are some topics (bicycling and wildlife) that are not yet on the page. I'm working on that.

Finally, if you want to just turn off notifications altogether (you're going on vacation, for example, or you've gotten sick of UHub messages), your Subscription page has a Delivery of Notifications link. Click on it and you can turn all notifications off (or turn them back on again, for that matter).

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Sounds great

By blues_lead on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 1:36pm.

Does it also integrate with the "Track" section of "My Account"? I'd love to be able to subscribe to posts without it going to my email.

Alas, no

By adamg on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 1:49pm.

So you'd like to be able to mark particular threads to follow, then have a page that lists them and any updates?

If so, let me see if I can bolt anything on that would do that.

Yes!

By blues_lead on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 2:31pm.

Exactly. You have it for pages we comment on, I think it would be awesome if you expanded that function.

Thank you!

Just Scroll Through The Main Page To Find Stories With New Posts

By Elmer on Mon, 04/30/2018 - 12:26am.

The main Universal Hub page(s) already shows a count of comments for each story, as well as the number of new comments since you last viewed that particular page:
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For this feature to work, all you need to do is be be logged into your account when viewing articles you wish to track.

Of course, if it's a story you're really interested in and want to follow indefinitely, all you have to do is post a comment. It can be just a single word, or; with a couple of tricks; you can post nothing at all:

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You left out two things

By Roman on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 3:29pm.

Turkey flies into a bicyclist crossing the Green Line tracks just as the mayor is about to dedicate a new skyscraper

The turkey was on his way to an NRA meeting and the bicyclist was actually riding a moped in the bike lane.

NRA Turkeys

By SamWack on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 8:41pm.

Turkeys don't normally go to NRA meetings, or other gatherings of organizations that sponsor turkey shoots, but when they do, be afraid, be very afraid.

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Registered users: You can now get e-mail notifications (again) when somebody replies to your comments

Comments

Sounds great

Alas, no

Yes!

Just Scroll Through The Main Page To Find Stories With New Posts

You left out two things

NRA Turkeys

>"At Universal Hub, we value your privacy..."

Yes?

Maybe he's testing the email

Updates.

Ah, I wondered why I had

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