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Re: Test Email - Test Email

Zenon — Tue Oct 28, 2025 7:00 am

Author: Zenon

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 7:00 am

Sophia wrote:

Zenon,
In my opinion, this is a genealogical thread, since it is about people knowing or not knowing that someone has replied to their post. I cannot count the times that a volunteer on this forum has put time and effort into replying to a person's question, only to have them not know about it. I can say this because I have contacted some people by private message (after waiting an appropriate amount of time since not everyone works on genealogy 24/7) and they have told me they never knew they had received replies.
In future, should I observe that I have not received an email notification, I will send you a private message as you have requested. I'm sure we all want the forum to run smoothly. It is a lovely little community.
Best wishes for a happy weekend,
Sophia

Sophia,
Of course, please let me know if you notice any problems with the notifications.

By the way, after many months of fighting spam and testing different solutions, our IT specialist implemented a new, creative mechanism this weekend. We hope it will significantly reduce the amount of spam on the forum and make the whole experience more pleasant for everyone (but the spammers).

Best,

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Fri Oct 24, 2025 2:25 pm

Author: Sophia

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2025 2:25 pm

Zenon wrote:

Trish (and everyone),

If this happens again, please just send me a quick message (maybe private message so we do not develop this non-genealogical topic thread ). When you do, include a short description of what you noticed, along with reference links to the specific thread. We will then try to check it.

I received two email notifications for your first posts after mine, but none after that - which makes sense to me. I do not need additional notifications about message from the same person in given thread if the first one already includes a link that takes me to the specific message and I can read the rest the whole thread.

Wishing everyone a great weekend!

Zenon

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Zenon — Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:07 am

Author: Zenon

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:07 am

Trish wrote:

Hi Zenon and Sophia,

Zenon, I do have it checked off where I am "supposed" to receive notifications when someone posts a relpy. However, most of the times I do not get any type of message that someone posted to my post or to a post that I was responding to.

I do hope that you can get to the bottom of this issue. I feel as though this is the reason why so many people do not reply to a request for they did not know someone responded to their request.

Thank you for all you do with keeping this forum up and running!

Warm Regards,
Trish

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Trish — Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:21 am

Author: Trish

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:21 am

Sophia wrote:

Trish wrote:

Sophia wrote:

Trish wrote:

Sophia wrote:

Thanks, Trish!

I did receive an email notification just now, even though I am logged on to the forum. So now I have learned that being logged on is not what prevents me from receiving an email notification.

Sophia

Hi Sophia,
I just got a notification also. However, I was logged into the forum. I have to see if I get a notification when I am logged out.

Warm Regards,
Trish

Hi Trish,
Now that you are logged out, do you still receive a notification?
Sophia

Hi Sophia,

I got an email notification. However, the forum stated I was still logged in when I went to go clicked on the link about the notification. I’m not sure if worked.

Trish

Hi Trish,
I can see you are now logged out. So here's your test reply!
Sophia

Hi Sophia,

It worked! I got an email that you replied to my message. When I clicked on the link, it still showed I was logged out and the link took me right to the message.

Does this mean no more playing tag you're it? LOL

Warm Regards,
Trish

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:16 am

Author: Sophia

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:16 am

Trish wrote:

Sophia wrote:

Trish wrote:

Sophia wrote:

Hi Sophia,
I just got a notification also. However, I was logged into the forum. I have to see if I get a notification when I am logged out.

Warm Regards,
Trish

Hi Trish,
Now that you are logged out, do you still receive a notification?
Sophia

Hi Sophia,

I got an email notification. However, the forum stated I was still logged in when I went to go clicked on the link about the notification. I’m not sure if worked.

Trish

Hi Trish,
I can see you are now logged out. So here's your test reply!
Sophia

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Trish — Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:14 am

Author: Trish

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:14 am

Sophia wrote:

Trish wrote:

Sophia wrote:

Hi Sophia,
I just got a notification also. However, I was logged into the forum. I have to see if I get a notification when I am logged out.

Warm Regards,
Trish

Hi Trish,
Now that you are logged out, do you still receive a notification?
Sophia

Hi Sophia,

I got an email notification. However, the forum stated I was still logged in when I went to go clicked on the link about the notification. I’m not sure if worked.

Trish

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:08 am

Author: Sophia

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:08 am

Trish wrote:

Sophia wrote:

Hi Sophia,
I just got a notification also. However, I was logged into the forum. I have to see if I get a notification when I am logged out.

Warm Regards,
Trish

Hi Trish,
Now that you are logged out, do you still receive a notification?
Sophia

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Trish — Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:00 am

Author: Trish

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:00 am

Sophia wrote:

Hi Sophia,
I just got a notification also. However, I was logged into the forum. I have to see if I get a notification when I am logged out.

Warm Regards,
Trish

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:57 am

Author: Sophia

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:57 am

Thanks, Trish!

I did receive an email notification just now, even though I am logged on to the forum. So now I have learned that being logged on is not what prevents me from receiving an email notification.

Sophia

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Trish — Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:55 am

Author: Trish

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:55 am

Hi Zenon and Sophia,

Zenon, I do have it checked off where I am "supposed" to receive notifications when someone posts a relpy. However, most of the times I do not get any type of message that someone posted to my post or to a post that I was responding to.

I do hope that you can get to the bottom of this issue. I feel as though this is the reason why so many people do not reply to a request for they did not know someone responded to their request.

Thank you for all you do with keeping this forum up and running!

Warm Regards,
Trish

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Thu Oct 23, 2025 8:10 am

Author: Sophia

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 8:10 am

Hi Zenon,
When you replied to me on this thread, I received an email. When I reply to my own posts (that is, I make two posts in a row) then I do not receive an email. This is what I have observed on many threads, for a long time.
I will stay logged in and wait for your reply to this post.
Sophia

P.S. If anyone reading this could please reply to it, then I would have my answer to the question. Thanks!

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Zenon — Thu Oct 23, 2025 8:01 am

Author: Zenon

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 8:01 am

Maybe because it was you replying. We can do the test when you are logged I would reply in this thread and you will see if you get a notification.

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:56 am

Author: Sophia

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:56 am

No, I did not receive any email telling me that I had replied to my own post.
Very interesting.
Sophia

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:56 am

Author: Sophia

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:56 am

Second post

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:55 am

Author: Sophia

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:55 am

Thanks, Zenon.
I am just checking to see if it works for me, too.
Sophia

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Zenon — Thu Oct 23, 2025 6:22 am

Author: Zenon

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 6:22 am

Sophia wrote:

Zenon wrote:

Sophia wrote:

Since I am uncertain whether the system is set up to give you an email notification when you reply to your own post, I decided just to reply here so you can really be sure.

Yes, Sophia, that’s how the system is set up, unless you uncheck the option “Notify me when a reply is posted” before submitting your post.

We recently had an update to the main system for the entire website, so if any of you notice any issues, please let us know.

Best,

Hi Zenon,

Thank you for this information. I want to clarify my point. I know that "notify me when a reply is posted" is the default option. However, if I am still logged in to the forum when a person replies to my post, I do not receive the email notification. So in this specific case that I was talking about above, where I am posting a reply to my own post, I do not think an email notification will be sent because (of course) I am still logged in when making that reply.

Am I correct?

Best regards,
Sophia

Sophia,

I needed to test this specific situation, and it showed that when I was logged into the forum, I received the response in the forum I also got an email notification about that response immediately. So it seems to be working in this case as well.

Best,
Zenon

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:58 am

Author: Sophia

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:58 am

Zenon wrote:

Sophia wrote:

Since I am uncertain whether the system is set up to give you an email notification when you reply to your own post, I decided just to reply here so you can really be sure.

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Zenon — Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:11 am

Author: Zenon

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:11 am

Sophia wrote:

Since I am uncertain whether the system is set up to give you an email notification when you reply to your own post, I decided just to reply here so you can really be sure.

Thanks Sophia

JoLoBec — Wed Oct 22, 2025 7:49 pm

Author: JoLoBec

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2025 7:49 pm

I've been having on and off issues logging in and have spoken with Dawid who looks after the website system and things work OK for a while then I can't get back in again. I've tried everything that I can think of (except I am not an IT administrator...!!) Anyhow, for now it seems I am back in the Forum! Sending you best wishes, Joanna

Re: Test Email - Test Email

Sophia — Wed Oct 22, 2025 5:34 am

Author: Sophia

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2025 5:34 am

JoLoBec wrote:

Testing if my account is still working!

Hi JoLoBec,

I can see you are trying to test whether you will receive an email notification of any replies to your post, so that you don't miss a response on your recent translation request. Since I am uncertain whether the system is set up to give you an email notification when you reply to your own post, I decided just to reply here so you can really be sure.

Hope it is working for you and that you get a response soon with the help you are waiting for.

Best regards,
Sophia