Couldn't resist getting in on the excitement! Do you suppose the OP has actually turned on email notifications for this thread? Because if not, they ought to in order experience first hand why PTF is far superior to notify in terms of forum usability.
I’ll keep repeating: many of you complain about the notify function without understanding it. Very unmustachian...MMMers are into optimization, after all.
Which means that the mustachian, optimised way to respond might be to not just keep repeating that people are doing something the wrong way but actually letting them know what they are doing wrong so that they can fix it, no?
I'm not sure exactly what macoconut is referring to but they might mean that it is possible to change your notification setting to only send an email the first time someone responds. After that you don't get another email until you have gone back to the thread. Or there is a daily or weekly notification optoin. Instantly but only first response is a bit less annoying than just instantly but has its issues as well as you have to be logged in for the forum to recognise you have read the new responses and are now waiting again for a new notification.
Mustachians are DIYers and should figure stuff out on their own. However, here are the instructions:
On any page of the forums, there is a menu at the top with these options: Home, Help, Search, Profile, My Messages, Member, Logout.
Click the word
Profile. (Yes, it's a drop-down menu, but it's also a button. Click it.)
You'll be taken to a page with a set of sub-menus: Profile Info, Modify Profile.
Hover over
Modify Profile, and choose
Notifications.
BOOKMARK/FAVORITE the Notifications page! NOTE: I have a favorite called "MMM-N" (N for notifications) in my bookmarks/favorites bar. That's the favorite I use almost all the time. (I occasionally look at "Unread posts since last visit", too, as well as new posts in the Post-Fire forum. I almost never look at "New replies to your posts" because if I want to keep track of a thread I posted in, I used the Notify button on that thread, and then it shows up on my Notifications page.)All you email complainers should probably choose these settings on the Notifications page at the top: 1) uncheck all the checkboxes, and 2) for this setting "For topics and boards I've requested notification on, notify me:" choose Weekly. (Then just delete the weekly email that shows up, or set up a rule to auto-delete it.)
On the Notifications page, just as on the "unread posts" and "new replies to your posts" pages,
there is an orange NEW button next to threads that you should be clicking to see what's new on the threads you're following. And of course, click the
Notify button (near the Reply button) on any thread you want to appear on your notifications page. If you lose interest in a thread, click the
Unnotify button.
When you want to visit the MMM forums, use the Notifications page as your starting point.
(Edited to bold the text about the orange NEW button.)
