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New Notification Feature On GoY

peter

By peter

31 comments


Hi everyone,

We’ve just made changes to Grows on You that we hope makes the site better for you :o)

Many of you are now using your personal news pages to see what is happening around Grows on You. We’ve had feedback from a few members that all of the notifications can be a bit overwhelming – especially if you’re very active. To help manage your notifications we have added the ability to hide a notification, and to stop receiving notifications.

When you go to your personal news page, each notification about new comments will have 2 links next to it, seen and stop following:

Seen will hide that notification until someone comments again.

Stop following will permanently stop all notifications for that blog, photo or question – unless you comment on it again.

UPDATE: Commenting on something again has the same effect as clicking ‘seen’ – the notification is hidden until someone else comments.

We hope this helps keep your news page full of the things you find most interesting. It’s no surprise this feature was asked for; just last week we passed 300,000 messages on Grows on You!! What a great community :o)

On an different subject…

We had someone sending dubious private messages to lots of members this weekend so our apologies if you were affected. The accounts and messages were removed and we’ve made changes to help prevent this sort of thing.

We’d like to remind you to please be careful if you tell others your personal information. That includes your email address and is good advice for all websites, not just Grows on You.

You are our best defence against rogue members, so if you receive any message that you think is suspicious please ‘flag’ it to our attention.

We hope you’re all enjoying the start of spring and looking forward to a great year in the garden :o)

Happy gardening and best wishes from GoY!!

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Comments

 

RRRRrrrrr Now i know what was going on With My Home Page Thanx Guys :)

8 Apr, 2009

 

Sorry Jacque, a few people got errors while it was updating - all's well now :o)

8 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks Peter and Ajay...looks great! Will have to take it for a spin! ; - }

8 Apr, 2009

 

This this brilliant Peter, thanks.

8 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks peter. It is good to be able to remove links when they have run there course.

8 Apr, 2009

 

I think its a brilliant idea, well done!

8 Apr, 2009

 

Thank you, another useful addition to GOY. :-)

8 Apr, 2009

 

This is horrible !!
Much too complicated for me. I feel lost with it.
GoY was simple to use and that's why I liked it. Not any more :o(

8 Apr, 2009

 

Good idea Peter. I found that I was reading the same stuff over again and then wondering if I was going to miss a comment that I needed to reply to in case people though I was being rude or forgetting them and I was staying up sooo late and not feeding the children properly and hubby didnt have any clean shirts- so now Ive got time to do all that boring stuff again.........er wait a minute!

8 Apr, 2009

 

Dear Hywel ul soon get to grips with it im sure :)

8 Apr, 2009

Sid
Sid
 

Another useful addition - thanks Peter.

Hywel - awww, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it really quickly - it's only two more buttons and you don't have to use them if you don't want to :-)

8 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks for the explanation, Peter - I went to my homepage and saw it before I arrived at your blog! Now I know what it's all about.

Also thanks for dealing with the rogue PM poster! That was really weird...

8 Apr, 2009

 

Mageth, I sympathise...
...my budgie was getting quite indignant when I was on GoY and his seeds were served up late.. Lol.

Thanks, Peter. These improvements will make things easier.

8 Apr, 2009

amy
Amy
 

Thanks Peter and Ajay , I was beginning to wonder if there was a way to remove some of my list .........

8 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks Peter, a great additon to a great site. Cheer up Hywel, you'll soon get used to it - although you may not see this message if you've been experimenting!

9 Apr, 2009

 

?? It's back to normal now.
I don't understand .
It's back to normal :o)

What went wrong ?

9 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks everyone, I hope it proves useful :o)

Hywel, I'm glad that GoY is back to normal for you. We didn't change anything to fix it but think that we know what happened - not all of the internet is as fast as us :o) but we'll try to prevent it happening again.

9 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks Peter.

9 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks Peter :0)

9 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks Peter....

9 Apr, 2009

 

Well done ! Very handy now to keep up on comments without backtracking, thanks.

9 Apr, 2009

 

Top marks as usual Peter.

9 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks folks, you're welcome :o)

10 Apr, 2009

 

Many Thanx, Guys, this explains it all very well. Also, Top Marks on your swift handling of the recent dubious messages thing! :-)

10 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks David :o)

11 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks, Chaps! And good advice about personal information, too!

11 Apr, 2009

 

I've only been here a week but experimented with the "seen" link to see what it did. I was glad to use it as even being here only a week my homepage was two screens long!

I haven't used the other ink as it is self explanatory &, for the time being at least, I don't want to stop following people's posts.

One thing that has drawn my attention is the H U G E amount of emails this site sends me! It also seems silly to receive emails advising me of the posts I've just made!!!

As I've commented to one or two people here this site really DOES Grow On You! I find myself posting a blog a day & uploading lots of my photos that have lain idle on my computer for years.

I enjoy seeing other's photos & reading their blogs, too. Hugely addictive! :D

13 Apr, 2009

 

Hi Balcony!

iI you are referring to your own private e-mail address, you can opt out of having notifications of comments, etc., sent there. Yes, your own News page will post directions to comments you have made in reply to comments made under a blog, pic, question you have yourself intialised. Meantime, in my own case, I have simply clicked the "stop following" tab, because you will get the comments, etc under your own stuff in your inbox, anyways!

Am glad to see that there are public safety meassures in place outside your home! :-)

13 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks Peter. I was thrown off and then got right into it again. :-) Much more organized now. Still fantastic job.

15 Apr, 2009

 

i find it much better thanks Ajay.

15 Apr, 2009

 

Thanks, David, for the tip of turning off email notifications! I did so & now my inbox no longer gets filled up with dozens of GOY emails!

I read them here directly on GOY, on my homepage.

16 Apr, 2009

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