NEW - email notifications of new posts on a thread Im on.

No, I’m getting the newsletters, Bathsheba, but not the flood of emails, thank goodness!

At the risk of stating the obvious but when new functionality is added to a Web site , good practice would suggest it was rolled out on a ' mirror' site to some test addresses .

Therefore not impacting the main site . I wish I could understand GNHQ and how it all worked because then I could have bit more sympathy for how it all works .

Or doesn't.

Sometimes it feels a bit like a lab experiment and we're the hapless mice :-)

Not yet, anyway!

Dozens of emails today. I delete them a batch at a time. But why have they suddenly descended on us?

Oh so that's my theory blown out of the water Maggiemaybe. Back to theory one then: I'm just a Billy no mates

I'm going to have to switch my phone off tonight because the emails are coming in all the time. And that's really inconvenient because I use my phone as an alarm clock to get me up for work. Getting really fed up with this now.

Chewbacca, I discovered my phone's alarm still works even if the phone's switched off.
Try it out before you go to bed.

I hope the large numbers of Gnetters who asked for this feature are happy, anyway

Your landline phone might have an alarm feature too.

No landline FarNorth, but thanks anyway. I'll try to find out if my alarm will still go off if my mobile is switched off though. I hope this is all resolved by the time I get back from work tomorrow night.

I feel like I've been spammed to death by Gransnet...not happy!! I've turned off the automatic notifications, but I think that's not going to necessarily make it stop...

I'd like to post more on here that I do, but there's a lot of things that make me uneasy about this site, and Numero Uno, is the fact that posts can be read on Facebook without the express permission of the poster.

The fact that we have to jump through hoops to remain anonymous is just unacceptable on a forum in these modern times..it's archaic.. IMO

If you're get lots of the emails, set up a rule to send them straight to the bin. It's easy to do.

NB Don't mark the messages as spam or you could end up never seeing another email of any kind. from GN ever again.

No doubt the problem will be fixed soon.

Here's how to do it with Gmail -

Step 1: Click on the settings button on the right-hand corner of the page.

Step 2: Click on the Filters and blocked addresses tab.

Step 3: Click on "Create new filter" on the bottom of the page.

Step 4: In the next screen, in the Subject box type "Gransnet: New reply on thread" (without the quotes).

Step 5: Click on "Create filter with this search."

Step 6: Click on "Delete it."

Step 7: Click on "Create filter", and click on "Also apply filter to matching messages" to have Google sift through your inbox and delete the ones still there.

Voila! Annoying emails gone

On Hotmail, you can use the Sweep button at the top of the page to do similar.
It's very easy to use.

Bathsheba don’t worry I m not getting any either

I found a button popped up last night which allowed me to opt out of notifications. So far so good,

Why the heck did GNHQ not ask us if we wanted that before they messed it up.

"If it works don't fix it."

I did not see that thread last night. I was too busy ranting on the WTF one.

I have just looked at that sweep button How long has that been there?

FGS no like buttons. So far we have manged with grins or such .
These threads run at such a rate I certainly could not follow them all. I do have other things to do during the day, (even if I dont get round to it.)

I do get notifications for the Gardeners World forum. (You get better garden advice on The Gardeners World forum than on Gransnet.)
Grans do seem to post a lot more than gardeners.

I receive the daily newsletter but haven't had any other GN emails.....it must be something that we ticked or unticked when we first joined (so long ago I have no hope of remembering)

Thanks Laura!