Personal messages
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Personal messages
I'm a little hesistant to post this,
As I've always used the ethos of 'if you can't do better yourself it's a bit unfair to critacise' and it's entirely possible I'm the one at fault here, as in I'm missing somthing.
But here goes,
The Personal messages on the site, Turns out I missed a few, so if I've not replied to any, sorry I not deliterabately being rude
Do you actively have to look at them to see if you've recieved any ? or does it show somwhere that I'm missing ? If you have to look is there any way it can be more obvious you've got somat in your inbox ?
Am I alone here or have others missed some ?
Don't mean to moan
As I've always used the ethos of 'if you can't do better yourself it's a bit unfair to critacise' and it's entirely possible I'm the one at fault here, as in I'm missing somthing.
But here goes,
The Personal messages on the site, Turns out I missed a few, so if I've not replied to any, sorry I not deliterabately being rude
Do you actively have to look at them to see if you've recieved any ? or does it show somwhere that I'm missing ? If you have to look is there any way it can be more obvious you've got somat in your inbox ?
Am I alone here or have others missed some ?
Don't mean to moan
Re: Personal messages
It's sort of a problem with the site combined with a feature of the browser. When you have a personal message TWO things will happen:
(1) An email is sent to the address that you registered with saying "You have a personal message"
(2) A pop-up should appear when you visit the site.
What is happening in you case is:
(1) Either you have changed your email address or your email provider is sticking these mails in the junk folder
(2) Firefox automatically blocks popups. If you enable popups for this site they will start appearing again.
There is a third problem. The "theme" currently in use doesn't highlight PM's; Ant is changing the theme I think, shortly, and that will maybe be the solution, so you can see on the front page without a pop-up that you have a private message.
This might be a good point to advise everyone to check their private messages
Sensible question btw Tom, and a nagging thing I've been meaning to see to for ages.
(1) An email is sent to the address that you registered with saying "You have a personal message"
(2) A pop-up should appear when you visit the site.
What is happening in you case is:
(1) Either you have changed your email address or your email provider is sticking these mails in the junk folder
(2) Firefox automatically blocks popups. If you enable popups for this site they will start appearing again.
There is a third problem. The "theme" currently in use doesn't highlight PM's; Ant is changing the theme I think, shortly, and that will maybe be the solution, so you can see on the front page without a pop-up that you have a private message.
This might be a good point to advise everyone to check their private messages
Sensible question btw Tom, and a nagging thing I've been meaning to see to for ages.
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Re: Personal messages
Ooops,
Thanks for the heads up Tomsk. As it turned out I only had one but still.
I would actually think that the email notification does not work. If it does this would be the first site for me that google filters out.
Thanks for the heads up Tomsk. As it turned out I only had one but still.
I would actually think that the email notification does not work. If it does this would be the first site for me that google filters out.
Re: Personal messages
New theme incoming shortly so I'll make sure that we have alerts on properly and verify all of the mail out functionality.
Re: Personal messages
Noticed this about 2 hours ago as well tom
Also very glad to hear were thinking of changing the theme, dont like to be critic but really dont like current theme sorry, dont find it very clear.
Sin
Also very glad to hear were thinking of changing the theme, dont like to be critic but really dont like current theme sorry, dont find it very clear.
Sin
Re: Personal messages
Just checked my email addy in profile and its correct also checked my spam folder and not getting any emails.
Checked preferences and set to recieve emails but not to pop up messages (which im pretty sure ive never played with).
Hope this helps.
Sin
Checked preferences and set to recieve emails but not to pop up messages (which im pretty sure ive never played with).
Hope this helps.
Sin
Re: Personal messages
Cool am glad I'm not alone on this
I've definately never had an email that I've received a PM and I've always used the same email address so no clue as to why it's not working for me
I've definately never had an email that I've received a PM and I've always used the same email address so no clue as to why it's not working for me
Re: Personal messages
As you can probably tell the new style is in place with clearer typography, a PM alert in the user bar at the top and integrated font size. Better?
Re: Personal messages
Antonym wrote:As you can probably tell the new style is in place with clearer typography, a PM alert in the user bar at the top and integrated font size. Better?
Good grief!!
Was logged in when you did this. Before it was nice and dark and suddenly its like a spotlight in your eyes. Nearly knocked me off me seat!
PM in control bar is good though. I had missed one as well.
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Re: Personal messages
lol ur right dors very bright