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I'm subscribed to several forums (Backpacking, photography, winter sports) and after a while I quite getting notifications. Any ideas?

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Have you checked to see if the emails are going to your junk mail, or, if you blocked my email address by mistake?

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I'm not sure the subscriptions drop. They seem to be thread based if you post or subscribe. For instance, in the Backpacking forum, i don't get notified in a thread i didn't post in. Not sure if that helps, but it might explain the behavior you see, JD ..

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rlown wrote:I'm not sure the subscriptions drop. They seem to be thread based if you post or subscribe. For instance, in the Backpacking forum, i don't get notified in a thread i didn't post in. Not sure if that helps, but it might explain the behavior you see, JD ..
You should be able to subscribe to an individual thread, or to an entire forum. And whether or not you posted to a particular thread or forum, if you subscribed to it, you should be receiving notifications when something new has been posted. Russ, let me know if something different is happening, and I'll look around to see if there's a solution.
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I don't know what's going on. I'm subscribed to Backpacking, Winter Sports and Photography and haven't received an update in weeks?
Maybe I'll just try subscribing to the entire site (if you can do that) and see what happens...

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ok, so maybe there is a problem. I too am subscribed to the backpacking forum (checkmark checked on the bottom of the forum page), and I only receive alerts if it's on a thread that i posted on. Is that what you see, JD?
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Well I just checked. I have commented on both Sierra inspiration and Green with Envy under Photography and have not received notifications of the recent posts. I did however just subscribe to this thread and received a notice that you responded.

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As a side note. We have your email address filtered to send to a specific file in gmail, so they would be hard to miss.
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yeah.. not dropping into a spam filter for me either.. Eric can check our logs (in his spare time ;) ) and see if there was a message sent. I'm guessing we need a test case, which JD, you already gave..
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I unsubscribed then resubscribed to photography and just received the most recent post (in the fish thread which I have not commented on). I did this same thing before (last month?), got notices for a while, then they quit coming?

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