Forum Updates

[Aidan (Aidan Heerdegen, ACCESS-NRI Release Team Lead)]

14/07/2023

Changed default email notification to “always” to ensure mailing list style topic updates are delivered by default.

Context:

Email notifications from watched topics (de-facto mailing lists)

As a community we are making extensive use of announce topics as de-facto mailing lists. Some people are finding they aren’t receiving emails with updates to topics they are watching, leading to a lack of trust in the idea of using topics in this way. In some cases an email might not be seen because it is caught in a spam filter, or there might be a confusion about what notifications are being referred to. There is also a 10 minute “grace period” before email updates are sent out, to give the …

This may have slightly increased the amount of email notifications you receive from the forum. Before this change you would not be notified if you were active on the forum within 10 minutes of an update to any topic you are following.

Note this is only the default setting. You can change your settings in preferences in the “Notifications” section.