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It seems this website is showing me unread notifications for every random post by every random user in any random thread. I do not want this behavior. I only ever want to see any notification at all from threads I have participated in and to that end threads that I manually tell the website I want it to track activity on. I have spent about 15 minutes clicking around my profile and website settings and trying to find the setting and I can not seem to find it. How do I disable this behavior of "show me notifications from all activity from everyone on the site" ? How do I turn this off? Is it possible to turn this off? 

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You can click on the notification bell, and click on notification settings.  There's quite a few settings in there, but yes you can turn them off.   Or you can just click here:
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1 hour ago, pioneerisloud said:

You can click on the notification bell, and click on notification settings.  There's quite a few settings in there, but yes you can turn them off.   Or you can just click here:
https://extremehw.net/notifications/options/

Welcome to EHW!  I'm sure once you get situated and your chair nice and warm, you'll find yourself at home here. 🙂  

I thought it must be something obvious that I was missing. Thank you. Some how I didn't see that option there but I see it now. 

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7 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

You can click on the notification bell, and click on notification settings.  There's quite a few settings in there, but yes you can turn them off.   Or you can just click here:
https://extremehw.net/notifications/options/

Welcome to EHW!  I'm sure once you get situated and your chair nice and warm, you'll find yourself at home here. 🙂  

I went through all of the notifications settings and I can not find any setting to turn off this behavior of giving me notifications from threads I did not view, did not follow, and never have clicked on or looked at. I tried to toggle each setting on or off and none of the settings do what I want, sadly. 😞 I'm still getting notifications from random threads. 😞 

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5 hours ago, kithylin said:

I thought it must be something obvious that I was missing. Thank you. Some how I didn't see that option there but I see it now. 

It's ok I'm still figuring things out plus this site is constantly evolving.

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3 hours ago, kithylin said:

I went through all of the notifications settings and I can not find any setting to turn off this behavior of giving me notifications from threads I did not view, did not follow, and never have clicked on or looked at. I tried to toggle each setting on or off and none of the settings do what I want, sadly. 😞 I'm still getting notifications from random threads. 😞 

Hey, are you referring to the big red counter on the Navbar ?

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There are some mixed visual cues happening here. The unread items indicator is being interpreted by users as a notification indicator because it's a large red circle with a number inside, which corresponds to the visual cue of a red chip with a number inside for notifications in many other web portals, chat apps, mobile OSes, and macOS.

 

In these forums, the notification bell next to the unread items also shows a dot at its top right when you've received an actual notification, but it's nowhere near as prominent visually. Since I don't have any active notifications, I can't even remember if the dot is red. However, this is what a user really wants to know or see when they've received a notification.

 

I've learned to ignore the unread items indicator completely. You can clear it if you want by clicking through and marking all forums as read, but that doesn't really serve a functional purpose. They aren't actual notifications.

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5 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Hey, are you referring to the big red counter on the Navbar ?

Yes I am. Every time I come back to view the site it has more notifications. And I click on that thinking "Oh someone replied to a thread I wrote in" but no .. it's just random things from stuff I didn't look at. And the things I actually posted in are also "lost" in there in the "sea of randomness" and it's difficult to find those. This is not great. 😞

 

EDIT: I've figured it out finally! click on the big round circle (the one that turns red with numbers in it) then click the drop down box for "Following \/" and select "Content items I follow" -> Then click on "Save as new stream" at the bottom -> create a name -> wait for the site to load the new stream -> then click the "Stream options" red button -> set as your default stream -> done.

 

Then the big red button will only ever show notifications from things we "follow", which we can determine in other settings on the site. It's counter-intuitive from a user stand point and annoying but this seems to work. 

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19 minutes ago, kithylin said:

Yes I am. Every time I come back to view the site it has more notifications. And I click on that thinking "Oh someone replied to a thread I wrote in" but no .. it's just random things from stuff I didn't look at. And the things I actually posted in are also "lost" in there in the "sea of randomness" and it's difficult to find those. This is not great. 😞

 

EDIT: I've figured it out finally! click on the big round circle (the one that turns red with numbers in it) then click the drop down box for "Following \/" and select "Content items I follow" -> Then click on "Save as new stream" at the bottom -> create a name -> wait for the site to load the new stream -> then click the "Stream options" red button -> set as your default stream -> done.

 

Then the big red button will only ever show notifications from things we "follow", which we can determine in other settings on the site. It's counter-intuitive from a user stand point and annoying but this seems to work. 

 

This red circle by default will show all unread items across the whole forum, which you have now configured the way you want which is good.🙂 You still get notifications by default for content you have started or posted in via the notification bell, at the top right. so whatever you are partaking in will not get lost anywhere else. So you should be all good. Using a new site can sometimes be jarring.

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While not 100% related, I understand that not all users will want to see the red counter in their NavBar area, so we are looking at introducing an option that allows users to hide it should they wish to 🙂

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You can now find this ability here : https://extremehw.net/settings/nav-bar/ 

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