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message 4:
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Ryan, Murderer of tapirs, Father of Krakens, Believer of Women
(new)
Ooooooh, I just got a notif that was only 30min late! :o
edit: And another one, only 13min!!!
Another weird thing is that, unlike ever before, the notifs on my phone and on the desktop are coming at wildly different times. And they even state different times for the posts. I'm getting stuff on my phone now that I got on the desktop about an hour ago. And the "new" notifs are only on the desktop.
As always, I have to wonder what kind of Frankenstein's monster this thing is?! Most bugs don't make any sense XD
edit: And another one, only 13min!!!
Another weird thing is that, unlike ever before, the notifs on my phone and on the desktop are coming at wildly different times. And they even state different times for the posts. I'm getting stuff on my phone now that I got on the desktop about an hour ago. And the "new" notifs are only on the desktop.
As always, I have to wonder what kind of Frankenstein's monster this thing is?! Most bugs don't make any sense XD
message 8:
by
Ryan, Murderer of tapirs, Father of Krakens, Believer of Women
(new)
I reported the bug and asked if they are going to fix it or if I should seek out a different platform to discuss books on.
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I just got almost on time notifs, so I'm a little bit hopeful they're actually fixing it! Still not on my phone tho, just desktop.
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Wow, GR support stepping it up, I already got a reply! :o A couple of hours ago in fact.
"Our developers are aware of this issue and are working on fixing it. While there’s no confirmed fix date yet to share, this bug is prioritized in our development team’s backlog – we hope to fix this soon. Your report has been added to the developer ticket."
"Our developers are aware of this issue and are working on fixing it. While there’s no confirmed fix date yet to share, this bug is prioritized in our development team’s backlog – we hope to fix this soon. Your report has been added to the developer ticket."
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Well, I also am glad if I'm not alone.
I'd feel better if it were on the Known Issues page, which it is not.
https://help.goodreads.com/s/announce...
I get a Notification, get all excited, then come to find out it's something that a) I already saw and b) happened 3-4 hours earlier
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(Not getting notifications at all for days definitely was).
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It's exhausting. Not to mention I get over 200 emails from goodreads every morning. If I'm lucky, otherwise it's more.*sighs*
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I never could cope with so many emails. I have way too many as it is!
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Yes - especially when combined with "Goodreads request took too long" page load failures.
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Like an echo in the quiet ^^'
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Account Settings > Emails > "See all discussions I’m following"
and clicked through every page to check the settings. Some topics were set to "Individual" or "All" instead "Notification only" as I would like. I changed all radio buttons to "Notification only" then went "back to account settings" and hit "Save email settings" button.
That seemed to cut down on some of the emails.
I've been such a whiny b*tch about GR stuff so I just wanted to say that I am very happy to have working notifications!
(I hope I didn't jinx it.)
(I hope I didn't jinx it.)
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Yes. It’s a spam/scam tactic. They’re adding a comment with a “…more” hyperlink at the end that they’ve added themselves. That hyperlink goes to whatever they really want you to see such as a product on Amazon. They’re hoping people will click on their own embedded “more” link instead of the legitimate “See more on Goodreads” link that Goodreads always includes with the comment e-mails.
Then I guess either they’re deleting their own account, or somebody else who received the scam reported them and Goodreads deleted them. In any case, by the time you see it, the comment and user may no longer exist, but you already have the e-mail with the link so they’ve managed to get their message through regardless of what happens to their account.
I fell for one too this past Tuesday, reading through e-mails quickly and not paying enough attention to what I was clicking on. Now I’m paying more attention!
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I am getting email notifications though. Last time I think those failed too.
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Like Meredith, I’m getting e-mail notifications for everything (as far as I can tell) this time. I don’t usually look at the online notifications but, now that I have, I see I’m missing everything I’ve been notified about via e-mail today except for the like and review comment notifications.
message 50:
by
Ryan, Murderer of tapirs, Father of Krakens, Believer of Women
(new)
No star ratings. No notifications. Just relying on wandering individuals. It's like my restauranteur days all over again.
https://help.goodreads.com/s/question...
Based on this I'm not hopeful they're doing anything about it, but maybe if we all contact them with reports? Contact form is here.
Feel free to use this thread for any notif related questions/comments!