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Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Thu May 02, 2019 11:38 pm
by Bowie69
Hmm let's see...

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 2:09 pm
by KeithL
Once again I seem to have stopped getting notifications. I have a couple from 22:09 and 22:441 last night (22nd) but nothing since although there are 11 notifications waiting for me when I open the Messageboard.

Can you take a look please Mike.

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 2:39 pm
by Admin
Just posted here from my personal account to set up requests for notifications, then posted from admin account to trigger a notification, and got the email just a few moments later. All seems to be working for me? Have you had the notifications about *this* post?

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 2:57 pm
by KeithL
Yes, just had a group of 5 notifications come through of which yours was one. First one was 14:23, last one 14:47.

Don't know what you did but thank you.

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:05 pm
by gtt1951
Sorry to report that notifications have stopped working again - I haven't had any for a couple of weeks now.
George.

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:13 pm
by Bowie69
I got one for your reply....

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:19 pm
by Admin
Bowie69 wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:13 pm I got one for your reply....
As did I. And now I've got one for yours, too! I think we should treat that feature as 'experimental', as the last two times it's fallen over it has somehow resolved itself without any input from me before I had a chance to look at it!

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:45 pm
by gtt1951
and I've just got a notification of this post.
George.

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:24 pm
by KeithL
Mine notifications have stopped again. Not sure exactly when but I suddenly realised the Message Board had been very quiet for some time and sure enough there were loads of notifications outstanding when I loaded it up.

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 12:44 pm
by KeithL
And they're back again. Odd how the notifications stop for a period and then restart.

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:22 am
by KeithL
And they've stopped again. Last one I got was 16:35 on 20/2/21.

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:41 am
by geoberni
Just one of the ongoing failures of the broken site.
I've always had all the notifications selected, yet I've never had an email come through to tell me I've had a PM.
The only one that does work is the actual Notifications icon if I have a PM, which is somewhat superfluous since it's right next to the PM button...

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:51 pm
by gtt1951
I've lost notifications again and it has been over a couple of weeks!
Not good :(

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:03 pm
by Admin
I say this with more confidence than I've ever said it before - don't worry about it. In a very short time, and I mean very short, we'll be on a new service that will mean we can forget about the [censored] we've had to put up with recently. I can't say precisely when because we're dependant on external factors but it will NOT be long

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 11:02 pm
by gtt1951
Hello Mike,
How long is a piece of string?
We are now 7 months down the line from your last post and nothing has happened.
I'm still not getting notifications and haven't heard anything about migration to a new platform.
Is the MMOC Forum dying a death?
Is there any point in staying a member?
In the past I found this forum very helpful and I tried my best in imparting information gleaned from my own repair projects.
A load of the info I posted up was lost (in the way of images) when the last migration happened - this was a complete travesty and the providers should have been ostracised.
The loss of this data was a blow to the whole MMOC community.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT????????????????????

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 9:39 am
by simmitc
When Mike wrote the above, we were in the process of moving the board to a new server. Regretfully, we then ran into some sizing issues with the volume of posts and images just too great for the servers that were available. We are now in the process of building a completely new server without any limits. Unfortunately, that does take time, and we are all doing this in our spare time.

However, in the great scheme of things, not getting notifications is not really a big issue. The board is still working, the information and advice is still there. All you have to do is to log in and click "New posts" to see everything that has happened since your last visit. Done regularly, the list will not be large, and if a topic in which you're interested has had a new post, then it will be in the list. The search function is also working, so it's easy to find topics on specific subjects or by specific authors. You can also use "Your posts" to keep track of your own topics.

There's so much information and help available, I'd say that it's well worth staying a member.

I'm sorry to hear that some of your posts were lost in the migration. The migration was completed by a specialist supplier with whom some of us have been less than impressed. The good news is that Mike has a folder of images, and one day we hope to be able to relink at least some, but that is a very long term project. In using a specialist supplier, it was hoped that the Club was ensuring the best possible service for its members, but it now seems that a better service will be achieved by using our own members, but as mentioned above, that does mean working (for free) in our spare time; so please bear with us.

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 10:12 am
by geoberni
Well said simmitc, I for one appreciate the difficulties the volunteers are having, though I do feel you deserve more support from Club management.

I've always used the 'New Posts', because unfortunately, the 'Active Topics' selector, which I use on other sites is one of the functions that's broken here. :cry:

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 10:38 am
by les
Nice to have an update, thanks. Every Tom Dick and Harry appear to call themselves ‘Specialists’ these days, it’s getting to the stage where they’re the ones to avoid! ——- agree, the new post facility is the easy answer.

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:02 am
by Chief
Funnily enough I never used to get notifications, but now I'm suddenly getting them.

Also about lost posts, if there were images you wanted to specifically fix but couldn't due to their loss from the forums you may be able to recover the photos yourself by grabbing them from the internet archive site and then updating the migrated posts that are broken with new attachments.

As an example, the forums in:

2006:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ww ... ewtopic&t=*

2013:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130115052 ... eboard.php

2017 (the layout is somewhat broken):
https://web.archive.org/web/20171220084 ... /index.php

2020:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200921093 ... /index.php

etc...

Re: Stopped getting notifications

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 8:42 am
by KeithL
The e-mail notifications have stopped again. It has been a few days since I got the last one.