Hey all,
Lets talk today about the alert system, one of the most important features that we utilize from our forum software.
It allows us to do things like Looking For Players forum where users are subscribed and when a new item is posted, alerting you. This allows for games to actually get noticed by people, allowing our site to actually thrive(A common problem for most RP sites)
It also allows people to get notifications for forums they like to watch, particularly RPs and getting notified of responses.
It also allows the staff to send alerts and point to certain threads when needed.
Today I wanted to talk with the site about The Alert System, and what everyone thought.
Common Complaints:
I didn't get any alerts, your board is broken!
A: No. The way the alert system is that if you get an alert and for what ever reason you clear the alert counter by hovering over it on the top left corner and do not visit the thread, then it will not continue to send you alerts because it assumes that you were made aware because you went ahead and cleared them.
This of course resets when you visit the thread again, and it resumes to sending you threads.
The reason why this functions like this, is because the board is designed not to spam you. Same with emails, if you go directly to a thread or post from an email(Since many of you like to get notifications via email) it does not mark alerts as read for you. So keep that in mind.
So yes, alerts have never been broken in any way shape or form since the creation of this site. The only thing I can imagine is that the few times we spend out a staff alert, or an alert from some forum they happen to be watching, like LFP, not everyone cares about everyone RP made and since some users don't care about those, and when they go to clear them, instead of reading all the other ones, they mistakenly clear the ones for their games as well with out visiting the thread.
Making it so they never get an alert again, until they do so.
Lets talk today about the alert system, one of the most important features that we utilize from our forum software.
It allows us to do things like Looking For Players forum where users are subscribed and when a new item is posted, alerting you. This allows for games to actually get noticed by people, allowing our site to actually thrive(A common problem for most RP sites)
It also allows people to get notifications for forums they like to watch, particularly RPs and getting notified of responses.
It also allows the staff to send alerts and point to certain threads when needed.
Today I wanted to talk with the site about The Alert System, and what everyone thought.
Common Complaints:
I didn't get any alerts, your board is broken!
A: No. The way the alert system is that if you get an alert and for what ever reason you clear the alert counter by hovering over it on the top left corner and do not visit the thread, then it will not continue to send you alerts because it assumes that you were made aware because you went ahead and cleared them.
This of course resets when you visit the thread again, and it resumes to sending you threads.
The reason why this functions like this, is because the board is designed not to spam you. Same with emails, if you go directly to a thread or post from an email(Since many of you like to get notifications via email) it does not mark alerts as read for you. So keep that in mind.
So yes, alerts have never been broken in any way shape or form since the creation of this site. The only thing I can imagine is that the few times we spend out a staff alert, or an alert from some forum they happen to be watching, like LFP, not everyone cares about everyone RP made and since some users don't care about those, and when they go to clear them, instead of reading all the other ones, they mistakenly clear the ones for their games as well with out visiting the thread.
Making it so they never get an alert again, until they do so.
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