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Hey all,
There is often confusion about how alerts work on the Overland Bound Platform. I hope this clears some of it up, and answers your questions.
Folks sometimes think the alerts are broken because conversations happen and they don't get notified. The reason for this is that the system stops sending alerts if you do not go to the thread.
We've added a more aggressive alert option.
You should see a new option in your user preferences called "Persistent Alerts":
If you enable this option, you will get an alert and/or an email for every new post in a thread or forum you follow. If you want to see every post - you will need to enable this option.
With our alerts and notifications you really are the master of your own experience. We will be adding more options, but there is already so much you can do to fine tune this.
If you want to fine-tune what notifications you receive, go to your account preferences on web:
If you want to change if you receive both an alert and an e-mail, change your watch settings by unfollowing and re-following a watched thread and changing the settings:
And in the mobile app you have access to notification settings as well:
Coming soon, we will make the Persistent Alert feature available in the mobile app, and we will make the watch forum feature available in the mobile app (currently you can only watch threads in the mobile app unless you watch a forum using the web UI).
Thank you for the feedback here, and thank you for your patience. We're creating this Overland platform for our Members, so your feedback becomes our roadmap!
Thanks again, hope to see you on the trail.
M
There is often confusion about how alerts work on the Overland Bound Platform. I hope this clears some of it up, and answers your questions.
Folks sometimes think the alerts are broken because conversations happen and they don't get notified. The reason for this is that the system stops sending alerts if you do not go to the thread.
We've added a more aggressive alert option.
You should see a new option in your user preferences called "Persistent Alerts":
If you enable this option, you will get an alert and/or an email for every new post in a thread or forum you follow. If you want to see every post - you will need to enable this option.
With our alerts and notifications you really are the master of your own experience. We will be adding more options, but there is already so much you can do to fine tune this.
If you want to fine-tune what notifications you receive, go to your account preferences on web:
If you want to change if you receive both an alert and an e-mail, change your watch settings by unfollowing and re-following a watched thread and changing the settings:
And in the mobile app you have access to notification settings as well:
Coming soon, we will make the Persistent Alert feature available in the mobile app, and we will make the watch forum feature available in the mobile app (currently you can only watch threads in the mobile app unless you watch a forum using the web UI).
Thank you for the feedback here, and thank you for your patience. We're creating this Overland platform for our Members, so your feedback becomes our roadmap!
Thanks again, hope to see you on the trail.
M
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