Again reiterating we need a Banner for "YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR ALERT SETTINGS" since it's come up, what, like twelve separate times across three consecutive pages?
Alerts are now swamped of notifications about someone posting on a thread I follow. Not the OP, and not just threads I recently visited, but random users and threads that was relatively active but I haven't visited recently coz the last update was about a week ago.
I dont know if it's already been mentioned, but the notifications seem to have changed. Im getting notifications for every response to any thread I watch and when I changed my preferences I stopped getting any notifications at all.
Me 2, notifications just stopped
How do i put it as only threadmarks gives alerts? And also how do i make it so that when i open alert i can actually see which ones are new and which ones ive read. They arent a different Color anymore
Can you please tell what boxes I need to uncheck or check so I only get the OP alert , thanks.
Is the replies to watched thread the one that causes all the replies in the alerts ?
VVV
They auto-enabled an option.
Go to 'Preferences' > Scroll down to 'Alert Preferences' > Find the box for 'Generate new alerts without reading threads' > Make sure it isn't checked
If it is checked, then it'll automatically alert you to every thread *as if* every time you checked alerts you *actually* went and read the thread. When unchecked, alerts act the same as they previously did.
Additionally, under Preferences, at the bottom, you can outright customize what you get alerts for.
Only OP responses? They have that. Reactions? Profile Posts? Replies in general? They have all of those, you just have to look for them. You can enable/disable at your pleasure.
While there isn't an option for 'threadmarks only', there IS an option for 'The thread starter replies to a watched thread' which is roughly equivalent.
Under the category 'Settings by notification category: When someone…' you have two boxes:
[X] Alert [X] Pop-up auto-read
'Alert' means that when a given action happens, you get an alert for it.
'Pop-up auto-read' means that the alert will be marked as read as soon as you see it in your alerts, without having to click on the alert.
To get the same functionality as the previous alert system, or at least the one I used, you need to ensure:
'Generate new alerts without reading threads' >>> NOT CHECKED (This is the option that means you ALWAYS get an Alert for EVERY REPLY as if you had actually gone and read the post every time)
'Pop-up auto-read' >>> CHECKED
