AnOther Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 What's with the insertion of "Discussion and Information About French Living" into email notifications ?It now gets truncated, in my email at least, to: (France Forum - Discussion and Information About French Living) New Post to Foru... so now I have no idea which topic the notification refers to without opening it to read [:(]Can it be put back to what it was please, e.g.. (France Forum) New Post to Forum: Re: changing headlights to continental ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 We don't know Ernie, but Admin has been alerted to the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 I don't get e-mail notifications . I now delete the tick in the box not to get them because they must be going somewhere. Is it because I'm with AOL and they get bounced back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 You have probably taken out the option of getting E mails from posters, not notifications of postings on a thread.You have to hit the notify button at the top of the thread to get notifications. If you don't hit that they don't get generated, its a simple as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 Thanks Cathy, perhaps someone somewhere got a new super dooper wide screen display and decided this was an "improvement" !Definately a case of LESS is MORE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 [quote user="Cathy"]I don't get e-mail notifications . I now delete the tick in the box not to get them because they must be going somewhere. Is it because I'm with AOL and they get bounced back?[/quote]Cathy, have you checked your spam settings? AOL's spam settings can sometimes prevent our emails from reaching your inbox.Please ensure *@completefrance.com is added to your address book in "spam settings" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Will do, Clair. Thanks for that info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 I agree that the format change is irritating. There are some threads that move off from the original topic and I'm no longer interested in following them so I delete them unread. But I can't do that now. I don't want to completely switch off the function though as I find it useful. I've also tried (in the past) unsubscribing from just those threads no longer of interest but that doesn't seem to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Catalpa, you can do it the other way around - delete the notification from your profile, but just hit the notify button on the threads of interest. I find this a lot less annoying, and when threads wander off topic, I just knock it off again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 That's true, Coops - good idea. If (for some reason) it doesn't get resolved, I'll do that. I suspect the change is something to do with the change in the logo at the top of the page - now French Property News / France / Living France. It's presumably some way of consolidating the brand. Always a good idea... until something implemented that irritates the brand's customers. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Forum Admin Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Hi,The forum title has been changed for Search Engine reasons. I have to say I didn't realise that it would also have this effect on notifications.I have shortened it...is this ok now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Sorry James, it's made no difference at all.Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 I have now received two types of headers:(France Forum Discussion) New Post to Forum:(France Forum - Discussion About French Living) New Post to Forum:Both allow thr thread tiltle to show, unlike this:(France Forum - Discussion and Information About French Living) New Post to Forum: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 James - I don't know how much of what we see you can control but you could reduce the New Post to Forum just to New Post because the to Forum is a given and therefore unnecessary. IMO. [:D] That would further reduce the number of characters in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 excellent - I can sign in now! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 I now have (France Forum Discussion) New Post to Forum: Re: France Forum - Discussion and I... which is worse not better !Please bear in mind that not everybody uses a Windows email client where you can adjust the column widths. I for instance use Yahoo where no such option exists, other web base clients are probably similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 Since this morning I now have 19 auto responses to topics I am watching or have contributed to but because of the ill thought out change I have no idea whether these are 19 individual responses to separate topics, 19 to the same topic, or a combination of both and the only way I can find out is to open each and every one individually. Previously I could delete all but the most recent notifications to a particular topic leaving me maybe 3 or 4 to actually open and I could then read any prior responses in the topic itself.Please do fix this. Why can you not simply go back to as it was until you have reconsidered it more thouroughly ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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