Instruction for managing new Thread Notifications and Accessing your watched forums 6

[Jon]

To manage notifications for your watched forums:

- Unwatch forums that you do not want to receive notfications and/or
- Disable email notifications for forums you want to continue watching but do not want emails

To manage your watched forums and notifications go here: https://www.eng-tips.com/watched/forums

Forums with New activity will be marked.



All forums marked with "Emails" Will generate an email notification on new threads.



To disable email notifications for a forum check the box and by the forum, scroll to the bottom and select disable email notifications. If you want to unwatch a forum select the unwatch forum.



Additionally, forums marked with Alerts will show in the bell icon



General Notification Management


Select your account icon and then preferences

https://www.eng-tips.com/account/preferences

Here you can control the summary emails as well what shows in the alerts area of the site.

 

[EngDM]

What have you done to my precious old layout. My feeble mind needs a legacy mode.

 

[LittleInch]

How do you sort your watched forums?

Can you do it with new ones at the top?

 

[LittleInch]

Where gave archived posts gone?

 

[AZPete]

What a complete disaster.

Congrats, you have made the site unusable. The new and modern thread/subthread/subthread X Matrixed layout makes this a maze with no flow, no good visibility, and requires a complete remapping in order to rejoin.

What a loss.

 

[DJL Eng]

+1 for LittleInch's post. Please tell me our archived posts have been saved...

 

[Maslov]

maze with no flow, no good visibility, and requires a complete remapping in order to rejoin.

Exactly. The side bar showing all my followed forums, each bolded when updated, was perfect. It was 1 click to get to new posts. Now I have to click 3 times, and cannot view a post while doing so — It's a new page each time, which adds 3 loading screens (which are also slower now, at least on my end). Also, every CSS element/panel is bigger now, so information is far too spread out, and half the page is white space, leading to way too much scrolling...

I used to be able to jump around with ease. I could browse forums for disciplines I know nothing about and pick up pearls of wisdom here and there. Now it all feels disjointed and there's so much friction I will end up only monitoring forums for my core interests...

Hopefully people stick to the site, it has been invaluable for this early career of mine. It was a matter of time that there would be modernization, but this feels sloppy and I fear the veterans who posted rarely but impactfully will drop the site altogether.

 

[tomsing]

Not thrilled about all of a sudden getting a ton of emails for "watched forums". I don't remember watching anything. I get more than enough garbage email during election season in the US, I certainly don't need you all adding to it.

 

[Jon]

Not thrilled about all of a sudden getting a ton of emails for "watched forums". I don't remember watching anything. I get more than enough garbage email during election season in the US, I certainly don't need you all adding to it.

Hi,

The old platform would automatically subscribe you to forums just by visiting them. This one does not. However, the old subscriptions were brought over as there was no way to tell what you actually wanted to follow. Please follow the instructions at the top of the thread to adjust what you follow.

 

[Jon]

Where gave archived posts gone?

Looking into this.

 

[Celt83]

Can you please revise having us watch every forums as the default configuration to having us watch no forums by default. Received an excessive amount of emails after logging in over a 24 hour period.

 

[theonlynamenottaken]

Wow, even the post trying to help people deal with the awful UI is awful.

1. Go here: https://www.eng-tips.com/watched/forums
2. Scroll to bottom and check the "Select all" checkbox
3. Hit the drop down box just to the right of the checkbox and select "Stop watching"

If that does not work then setting email to treat all eng-tips messages as spam worked as a stop-gap measure.

 

[Jon]

HI, we've made some adjustments to the email settings for all users that will reduce the bulk of the email notifications that you have been receiving. We will continue to adjust settings as required. Thanks for your patience and your contributions to the community.

 

[Brian Malone]

To manage notifications for your watched forums:

- Unwatch forums that you do not want to receive notfications and/or
- Disable email notifications for forums you want to continue watching but do not want emails

To manage your watched forums and notifications go here: https://www.eng-tips.com/watched/forums

Forums with New activity will be marked.

View attachment 13

All forums marked with "Emails" Will generate an email notification on new threads.

View attachment 14

To disable email notifications for a forum check the box and by the forum, scroll to the bottom and select disable email notifications. If you want to unwatch a forum select the unwatch forum.

View attachment 15

Additionally, forums marked with Alerts will show in the bell icon

View attachment 16

General Notification Management


Select your account icon and then preferences

https://www.eng-tips.com/account/preferences

Here you can control the summary emails as well what shows in the alerts area of the site.

View attachment 17

Thanks for the heads-up on where to deselect all the notifications! 20+ default options unselected . . .

 

[StrEng007]

Looking into this.

Is there any update to where our archived posts have gone?

 

[IRstuff]

It used to be that if you posted something to a thread, the thread would be considered to be "read", since you were the last post and writing implies reading. Now, you post, mark forums read, and your post is considered to be "new" and has to be marked "read" again, particularly if the post was in the past five minutes.

I'm not sure what the threshold is, but it seems to me that only posts that are "new" in the interval between the last post you read or wrote until you hit the "mark forums read" should be allowed to stay "new"