Forum subscription problems?

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Boom! 57 emails arrived in my inbox. Was there an email notification constipation that just needed a fiber and prune juice?

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Woot! 200 emails! LOL.

 

[freyar]

This makes me glad I never bother subscribing to threads.

 

[fba827]

This makes me glad I never bother subscribing to threads.

I subscribe to threads of interest, but I don't have email notification on since I come here on a regular basis. Just go to my account and it shows all the subscribed threads that have responses since i last logged in.

email is SO last year.

If I got 1000s of notification emails all at once, I would have had flashbacks to a previous job, and, frankly, that would have made me cry.

As an aside, I'm sure it was hard work for Morrus and others involved to get the server back up yesterday/today. So nice job on that! Hope you're able to get some sleep too.

 

[Morrus]

Yup, I think we need to educate 80,000 people that they don't need to subscribe to everything!

We've turned off all the email features for the time being.

 

[Orius]

I'm glad I had the email option turned off. I don't subscribe to many threads, but even one or two replies a day in about a hlaf-dozen threads gets spammy. I do use the subscriptions to keep thrack of active threads or at least useful ones or threads I'm interested in. The big problem is keeping them orgnaized. I have 700 some threads from the last 5 years dumped in the default folder and I've been trying to move them to other folders. It doesn't help when I forget to specify a folder for a new subscription and dump new stuff in there on top of it.