Not Reliably Receiving Alerts for "Watched" forums.

[AntonK]

Hi,
I used to reliably receive alerts (the little bell up on the right-hand bar) when new posts were posted to a "watched" forum. Now, sometimes I do, but other times I'll see nothing but when I check the forum there's a number of new posts. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Anton

 

[L&LD]

@AntonK you may want to delete those 'watched' forum notifications and try adding them again. With the forum update, maybe not all settings transferred fully?

(With the new forum update, I have deleted all 'watched' forums as I was getting too many notifications. But I also read all the forum posts anyway).

 

[AntonK]

@AntonK you may want to delete those 'watched' forum notifications and try adding them again. With the forum update, maybe not all settings transferred fully?

(With the new forum update, I have deleted all 'watched' forums as I was getting too many notifications. But I also read all the forum posts anyway).

Thanks, I'll do that.

Anton

 

[L&LD]

And if it doesn't work directly, try deleting them, close down the browser you're using (not just minimizing it), and wait a minute before launching it again to add the forums you're interested in (caching issues and such!).

 

[JTnola]

This just happened to me in the last week or so…. My “alerts” comes up empty … it usually at least displays recent alerts, even if there aren’t any new/un-viewed alerts to display.

Anyone else?

 

[AntonK]

This happens to me occasionally as well.

 

[Tech9]

Since the last update there is a bug in new posts display - on a PC I'm logged in a thread with new posts shows the number of posts correctly and the last post is there. If I log out though and refresh the main page the thread shows the number of posts correctly, but the last post is missing.

 

[Tech9]

Here is an example of the bug above:

Logged out, the last post in the thread is made by user Kendo:

But the last post visible is this:

Logged in, the last post becomes visible:

This started happening after server maintenance few weeks back, @thiggins.

Seems not browser related - the same on Chrome, Safari, Edge. I don't use Firefox.

 

[thiggins]

Looking into it.

 

[Tech9]

Perhaps related to @AntonK notifications issue.

 

[thiggins]

The cause is a change in the newer version of xenForo. There is a 5 minute cache for guests (users not logged in). So, feature, not a bug.

 

[Tech9]

Hm... what's the purpose of this feature?

 

[AntonK]

The cause is a change in the newer version of xenForo. There is a 5 minute cache for guests (users not logged in). So, feature, not a bug.

I'm always logged in and I still, every so often, lose notifications for threads I'm "watching".

 

[L&LD]

I don't rely on 'alerts', I'm interested in all threads and topics.

I simply click the 'New posts' link to see what I haven't read yet.