[icerabbit]

As a heads up for others, I turned of all 6 notification features, probably two hours ago by now, and just checking my email, there were more new notifications.

Check "Your Stuff" "Email Notifications" and remove the ones you were automatically subscribed to this morning.

[Ralph_Thornton]

Thanks icerabbit. I couldn't figure out why I was still getting emails after I turned off everything in the list.

[lanceh5]

I don't like it. Not any improvement in the forums, actually worse, more difficult to navigate. You guy have too much time on your hands. Are you trying to drive us away from this site?

[PeterG]

I didn't have anything checked and I'm receiving e-mails.

I guess it does it automatically.

[Jason Snell]

Yeah, the news page stuff is not right -- it should be displaying times for items posted today.

Also has nobody noticed that the times on the stories are in your own time zone? :-)

I don't have any MacWeek or MacCentral screen shots, sadly.

[dougster]

Like others, still finding my way around the new forum, but I think after a few days it'll be ::sweet::.

The new forum reminds me a little of the Apple Discussion Boards...:D

-doug

[PeterG]

Jason,

Because I didn't have the thread checked and still received e-mails is this going to happen every time?

Peter

[James_Dempsey]

As stated several dozen times in several different threads... not all features are active yet, not all bugs are squashed, not all content has been "ported over" yet.

I don't believe the site should have been taken "live" until most all the features were ready and bugs worked out. HOWEVER, it IS a work in progress (as noted by the "beta" tag in the masthead), so you really should wait it out and see how everything shakes out before making hasty judgements.

[cpoff]

I'm pretty sure the 1000-character limit only applies to the comment box on the article page itself. Come inside the forum area, and you have no character limit at all.

- cp

[icerabbit]

Make sure nothing is listed under the "Email Notifications"

If there are threads listed there, that why you get notified. The check-mark box is for additional functions. You will get notified for every thread listed there until you remove it/them. So, check-mark and click delete until you end up with "You do not have any email notifications."

That should restore calm into your inbox. At least regarding this forum ;)

[PeterG]

icerabbit,
I was in there doing what you said but I read it through my e-mail. hehe

I think I have to check a few more Pref'.

I did check the New site comments, after reading your "stuff" comment, but they kept on coming.
That's when I went to Preferences.

Thanks,

Peter

[icerabbit]

We might be missing the delete post function - I just typed a message here in the wrong tab :D
Message was edited by: icerabbit

[pkeene]

To be honest...

Too much like Apple's discussions;

No obvious way to post a bulleted list;

Pages take waayyy too long to load;

No obvious way to show all posts in a thread - you have to load each page separately;

Don't like logging in with e-mail address, this is not a secure pipe;

Hate the Microsoftie avatars.

But apart from that? Everything is fine.

Peter

[pkeene]

kellie said:

This allows that person who started the thread to come back later and mark answers as either helpful or correct. If your answer is marked helpful, you get 2 points. If your answer is marked correct, you get 4 points. So obviously, the way to get more points is to post answers that other people deem to be correct or helpful.

Kellie | Online Community Manager

Eishh! I was dreading this when I heard you were going to use the same software as Apple's Discussions. One of the things that killed those boards for me is the "points hunting" that broke out when Apple introduced this system. Instead of people posting replies when they genuinely could help, you had a rash of "repair permissions", "zap PRAM", "fill-in-your-own-example-of-asinine-help", followed by "please give me points" begging and post-inflating "thank you for your thank yous".

Do you have to go down this route.

Peter