2y ago

Is there any way to be notified when others respond to your comments? I feel like it naturally extinguishes conversations to not have any notifications?

I've gone back and noticed that sometimes a handful of people had responded to a previous comment and I never realized it.

As it stands, it seems you only get notifications if people actually manually mention your username. Is there any method to get post/thread reply notifications?

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Yes, go to the settings page (notifications section). They seem to have been off by default.
Note that notifications may still be late for whatever reason.
@Bendersmember
@gramw
@ivanafterall
- Thanks! Some of these should likely be default on.
  Also I should definitely actually look before griping hahaha
  
  These should definitely be on by default. Users won’t think to ask or find threads where this is explained, and having it off absolutely kills conversations and engagement unnecessarily @ernest
- Hallelujah. Thank you! Now I feel like an idiot, it's so straightforward and obvious.
  
  It took me over 2 weeks to figure it out, myself. Don't be hard on yourself!
- @insomniaclemon
  @Bendersmember @gramw @ivanafterall
  Thanks so much for this, I've been blundering around for a few days now wondering just what the hell am I doing wrong lmao
- I have them turned on from when I first signed up, didn't even see a notification for you tagging me in this reply. Who knows maybe there's just a small bug, I'll keep checking manually where I can in case. Or maybe they are just late. Thanks for the help!
  Edit to add: just got notification, took 3 hours.
  
  I've noticed some times they just take a while to show as a notification. (This is assuming you have it enabled as others have pointed out in here)
- Yep while looking for something else I found the settings and itn improved kbin mainly when I turned it on read missing about 6 notifications a day
- Which setting is it? I'm really struggling to understand the wording of the options...
  Notify me of comments in my threads
  Notify me of replies to my threads comments
  These both sound the same to me, isn't a comment in my thread the same as a reply to my thread? Assuming "my thread" means when I leave a comment and it gets comments under it. What's the difference between "my threads" and "my threads comments" maybe one means all replies under one of my comments which isn't what I want - I just want notifications when someone replies directly to one of my comments, but "comments in my thread" sounds like it includes all replies to other people's comments under my comment but "replies to my threads comments" also sounds like it includes replies to other people's comments under my comment...
  
  I would guess that one case is "I made a new thread and am OP and want to be notified of all messages to that thread" and the other is "I want to be notified of comments that are children to my own comments".
  
  I think you've got it, replies-to-replies is probably not needed (though if you don't get many replies or if a reply actually is relevant to you it might still be beneficial to be on).
We have a large queue that is slowly decreasing. With the new server, notifications will be more responsive.
- Please can you post your buymeacoffee link?
  
  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin -- I believe that's it
I'm confused as well, some of the time I get a little circle with a number next to my username and other times I don't, didn't realized being mentioned by name was the cause. Would be nice to have some more consistency with notifications.
- @Bendersmember, yeah, I'm pretty sure doing it like this is what causes that. I've gone back to previous threads that had numerous responses to my comments, but I never received any notification.
  Edit: I'm wrong. Look in your Settings -- Notifications. It's right there. Thanks @insomniaclemon!
I don't know if this is common, and I assume it's due to the nature of federation and things taking a little while to update, but even with notifications on, it's been taking around 2 hours from when the person responds, to me being notified about it, so there's that to consider, too..
(not complaining, just pointing out another reason people might not see notifications right away)
- Just today I had a reply to one of my comments, the notification popped up while I was browsing, but when I went to read it the reply itself had a timestamp of two hours prior. It's possible that this has happened before, but it was the first one that I noticed. Maybe more usage is lagging propagation, especially if the timing seems to be roughly the same amount.
  I just realized this might not be seen for a bit if that's true, lol.
  
  Even better, now I have a reply that I had already seen earlier that is popping up as a new one. It clears in the top bar when I go read it, but then when I refresh it's back again as new. Growing pains.
  
  Only 10 hours later... haha!
  But it was nigh time, so I had good reason.. 😁
  And yes, it seems to be 2 hours every time, which is what made me think it's not a me problem but a kbin/fed thing, even though I don't know enough about how it all works, from reading the banner you get when you browse from kbin to another instance I know that there might be some delays, so I just put it down to that.
Curious about this as well — commenting so I can be notified if anyone kno- . . . Oh wait
- @gramw, I think this is the only way you get notified
  Edit: I'm wrong. Look in your Settings -- Notifications. It's right there. Thanks @insomniaclemon!
Everyone be patient. Kbin especially is in a very early phase. Imagine joining Reddit in it's first few months.
Extra helpful thread thank you thank you o/

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