1. Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com. Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
    Dismiss Notice
  2. For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
    Dismiss Notice
  3. Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
    Dismiss Notice
  4. If you wish to change your username, please ask via conversation to tehelgee instead of asking via my profile. I'd like to not clutter it up with such requests.
    Dismiss Notice
  5. Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
    Dismiss Notice
  6. A note about the current Ukraine situation: Discussion of it is still prohibited as per Rule 8
    Dismiss Notice
  7. The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.
    Dismiss Notice
  8. The testbed for the QQ XF2 transition is now publicly available. Please see more information here.
    Dismiss Notice
Mail delivery issues Usernames Rule 4 Clarification Username Change Requests Disposable Email Addresses Ukraine Rule update XF2 testbed available

Notifications When Followed Member Makes A New Thread

Discussion in 'Suggestions & Bugs' started by ThatCatMan, Jul 11, 2022.

Tags:
  1. ThatCatMan

    ThatCatMan Man of Cats

    Joined:
    Mar 5, 2021
    Messages:
    162
    Likes Received:
    1,119
    So let me set the scene. Imagine one day, you haven't had a notification in a month, you've watched many fics, so it's quite unusual for this to happen. You then decide to do some investigative jounalism and find that over a quarter of your followed authors have been writing new stories for months and you never knew because all following authors does is put them on a list.

    Yeah. This was an experience I've had.
     
    ThatCatMan, Jul 11, 2022
    #1
    Fitoor likes this.
  2. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

    Joined:
    Apr 26, 2013
    Messages:
    7,612
    Likes Received:
    53,735
    Yup.

    Sadly, there's nothing we can really do about this. "Follow" in XF is a fairly useless operation.
     
    alethiophile, Jul 11, 2022
    #2
  3. MissileTeatime

    MissileTeatime By the power of Vaporware!

    Joined:
    Apr 21, 2017
    Messages:
    2,003
    Likes Received:
    5,935
    The "news feed" feature would be perfect for this, actually...
    ...if we had options to affect what goes on there the way we did with alerts. By default, it shows you everything that everyone you follow is doing, including leaving likes. As if it's trying to be Facebook or something.
     
    MissileTeatime, Jul 26, 2022
    #3
    ShadowStepper1300 and LurkingInTheDeceit like this.
  4. ShadowStepper1300

    ShadowStepper1300 I trust you know where the happy button is?

    Joined:
    Jun 20, 2016
    Messages:
    917
    Likes Received:
    3,016
    I find these new stories by watching the forums they write in. Sure, there's a lot of garbage stories thay quickly get dropped, but there's also some great stories I would have never found out about if I hadn't watched the forums.
     
    ShadowStepper1300, Jul 26, 2022
    #4