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<blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 8376313" data-attributes="member: 71235">I'm also not interested in notifications for the most part. The main reason is, there's too darn many ways to get them now. Back in the day you had email and usenet and that was about it; you could check everything in just those two &quot;apps&quot;. Now there's fecebook, twitter, reddit, discord, and every other dratted app on your computer and mobile, all flashing their little red badges at you and demanding your attention.I'd like to say I default to preferring email notifications, but now everybody uses spambot services that generate emails containing only images and tracking links instead of plain old (searchable) text and honest links. I get one of those and usually unsubscribe immediately. And so I end up being uninformed on things I'd otherwise actually be interested in, and the people using the spambot services never know why. But maybe I'm the only person who does that.But something tells me I'm not.In any case, that would be my advice: Have an email signup that sends out plain text-based updates with honest links, and be up front about that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="niklinna, post: 8376313, member: 71235"] I'm also not interested in notifications for the most part. The main reason is, there's too darn many ways to get them now. Back in the day you had email and usenet and that was about it; you could check everything in just those two "apps". Now there's fecebook, twitter, reddit, discord, and every other dratted app on your computer and mobile, all flashing their little red badges at you and demanding your attention. I'd like to say I default to preferring email notifications, but now everybody uses spambot services that generate emails containing only images and tracking links instead of plain old (searchable) text and honest links. I get one of those and usually unsubscribe immediately. And so I end up being uninformed on things I'd otherwise actually be interested in, and the people using the spambot services never know why. But maybe I'm the only person who does that. But something tells me I'm not. In any case, that would be my advice: Have an email signup that sends out plain text-based updates with honest links, and be up front about that. [/QUOTE]

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