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Sandra wrote: "Katie, if you weren't married I would say invite him for a drink this weekend, but I guess you will have to just leave the blinds closed."

Blinds remained closed this morning Sandra!

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Jenn wrote: "I’d go over, introduce yourself, and tell him that you are listing your house and may have viewings at odd times, so if he wouldn’t mind showering with his blinds closed until it sells . . .
Treat..."

Excellent idea except I may actually ask him to keep the blinds open lol!!

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Rusalka wrote: "Peggy wrote: "In addition to Esther's 4th option, if you feel bad for him but don't want to embarass him, you could put a note in his mailbox. Anonymously or not, that's up to you ;-)"

I agree wit..."

Before we had our bathroom re-done, we didn't have a blind just cotswold glass and the husband had said to me not to worry that no one could see in. I didn't believe him and waited for him to take a shower, went outside and although you couldn't really see anything there was definitely an outline. We got a blind fitted not long after lol.

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Sarah wrote: "I'm pretty sure a couple canoeists have caught me getting dressed in the mornings. I often open the curtains wet side so I can see rather than puttting thee light on. You can heqr an engine if a bo..."

I bet you made their day Sarah!

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Janice wrote: "Wow! That was a different way to say "good morning". LOL! That reminds me when we were in St Maartens and going on a ski-boat tour. Apparently, we would be passing a nude beach. The tour guide said..."

I wonder what it is like to have no body hangups? Being comfortable in your own skin must be very freeing. Perhaps my neighbour is a closet naturist?!

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Rusalka wrote: "I'm actually going to be building a screen this long weekend as the neighbour has cleared all her fence that gives a clear view from our bedroom to her back door. And I don't like having to dive ev..."

Perhaps their roof leaks or maybe they wash their floors all the time?

The Hardenbergias look beautiful!

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With all advice taken into consideration and the possibility that he could be a naturist, I am going to leave the blinds closed or sit with my back to the window if necessary.

In other news, it is raining today.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

P.S Not my place. This is the ideal! And so you can see what the Aussie native looks like.

Option, Katie?

[Kristie, Moderator]

Is anyone else having issues with their notifications today? I haven't gotten a single notification all day and had to go checking on threads.

[Esther]

Kristie wrote: "Is anyone else having issues with their notifications today? I haven't gotten a single notification all day and had to go checking on threads."

Yes. I have received none but I should have gotten a few.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Esther wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Is anyone else having issues with their notifications today? I haven't gotten a single notification all day and had to go checking on threads."

Yes. I have received none but I should have gotten a few."

Thanks, Esther. They must be having an issue. At least I know it's not on my end.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I haven't got any, and all my ones from last night have deleted themselves. My last one was 20 hours ago, and I was definitely receiving new ones 9 hours ago before I went to bed.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Same here. Not a single notification since Saturday morning. I haven't noticed previous ones deleting themselves, though.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I'm surprised they haven't fixed it yet. My newest notification says 1 day ago. I wonder if they'll get it fixed today or if it will have to wait for Monday? It's very frustrating.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Still borked over here, and the newer notifications I saw last night haven't reappeared yet.

[Peggy]

I only noticed it now, and that means I'm way behind on all my threads. It seemed strangely quiet here, now I know why..

[Sandra, Moderator]

Yes, It was weirdly quite. I have to admit that I had a lot of reading done yesterday without the distraction. :D

[Janice, Moderator]

I read somewhere else -

"Goodreads has temporarily turned off email notifications, in-app notifications, and push notifications... include when you receive a new message from a Goodreads member, new friend additions, new followers, new group additions, and any other event, comment, or activity notifications you've signed up to receive in your Account Settings. We're working on bringing these back soon."

I don't use notifications personally. I use the "unread topics" and click on the red "new" link.

[Sarah]

I do the same as you Janice. Notifications annoy me so I just look at the unread topics when i log in.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I use the notifications because they work for me, but also because it is the best way if you are using the app. It is annoying having to go to every group and every folder to find the new comments (in the app) so I'm just checking the most popular. I miss my computer.

[Esther]

Sarah wrote: "I do the same as you Janice. Notifications annoy me so I just look at the unread topics when i log in."

I only use notification when I do not want to miss a reply on a specific thread, like a buddy read. There is so many threads wirth unread posts sometimes that some would go unnoticed for days.

[Janice, Moderator]

I do the same, Esther. One that I specifically follow is the WoF name request thread. I use to when posting badges, so new messages are scrubbed. This way I don't miss them.

@Sandra, I thought there was an unread folder on the app as well.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I also use notifications all the time. I never use "unread topics" because I'm in several groups and there are plenty of threads that I don't follow. That would be clogged up with a lot of unread threads that I don't care about. I don't even know where it is online. Is it under "my group discussions"? I am currently going from group to group scanning for the read unread notifications on each thread that I would normally follow. It's a hassle and I'm definitely checking less often. I hope they get it fixed soon.

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "I also use notifications all the time. I never use "unread topics" because I'm in several groups and there are plenty of threads that I don't follow. That would be clogged up with a lot of unread t..."

There's one on this page - top right, under the search box for discussions - "unread topics | mark unread".

On the group home page, to the right of Discussion Board - "topics all | new | unread".

From the Discussions Page - to the right "new topic | edit folders | unread" For those who aren't moderators, there may not be the edit folders link in that last one.

I just read the ones I want in the unread folder and then mark the rest as "mark all as read". They won't come up again until there's a new post in that thread.

[Margo]

Is anyone else not getting notifications? I've had none all over the weekend. When I go to the group page I see the activity so I know you're all posting so it's not a big deal, just strange.

[Sarah]

Haha Margo, you might want to read up the thread a few comments - it seems that lots of people are having this issue.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Janice wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I also use notifications all the time. I never use "unread topics" because I'm in several groups and there are plenty of threads that I don't follow. That would be clogged up with a..."

Oh, thanks!

Edit - See, when I go there, there are 105 pages of unread topics. All the old closed discussion topics, etc are all in there. That has always seemed so overwhelming to me. But now that I look at it, it is organized by date of last comment. That does make it easier.

[Janice, Moderator]

Margo wrote: "Is anyone else not getting notifications? I've had none all over the weekend. When I go to the group page I see the activity so I know you're all posting so it's not a big deal, just strange."

Msg 1968 explains it.

[Peggy]

So... a few weeks ago I downloaded this app where you can sell (and buy) second hand clothing.

Then I found out you can sell and buy second hand books there too.. I've bought 9 books (including a 4-book series) there in the past 2 weeks. I should probably get a grip on myself now.

PS. I sold one book too!

[Sarah]

I used to do ReadItSwapIt where you list your books that you want to get rid of and someone gets in touch to request one of them and then you choose a book that they own in return. I found some great books that way. I stopped doing it for some reason. Actually, it was probably because I got a kindle.

[Sarah]

@Kristie, you can mark them all as read so that you have a clean slate and then go from there!

[Peggy]

That sounds interesting Sarah! I'll go see if it's available here too.

[Cherie]

Sarah wrote: "I do the same as you Janice. Notifications annoy me so I just look at the unread topics when i log in."

I do the same.

[Cherie]

The Aussie Readers group, that I am a member of, sent a personal message about the notices about an hour and a half ago. Similar to what Janice posted in message 168 above. They said that they are working on it and they are sorry that members are upset and angry about it.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Sarah wrote: "@Kristie, you can mark them all as read so that you have a clean slate and then go from there!"

Oh, I need to look into that.

[Margo]

Janice wrote: "I read somewhere else -

"Goodreads has temporarily turned off email notifications, in-app notifications, and push notifications... include when you receive a new message from a Goodreads member, ..."

Thanks Janice, I missed that post.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "Sarah wrote: "@Kristie, you can mark them all as read so that you have a clean slate and then go from there!"

Oh, I need to look into that."

This is working better. I still have ignore some and there's the extra step of marking them every time, but much better than being overwhelmed with threads. The only issue is that I still won't get notifications about other things, such as comments on my reviews, this way

[Peggy]

I did get a notification that I had a new message (which was the ylto newsletter), but no others.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Yes, I'm still getting my messages and friend requests, but those are separate notifications. They have their own area.

[Kristie, Moderator]

It looks like notifications are finally back! Woot!

[Peggy]

I got a notification for this!

I missed them so much.

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I thought it was strange that there were no notifications coming through. Thought everyone was just being incredibly quiet lol!

[Kristie, Moderator]

Katie wrote: "I thought it was strange that there were no notifications coming through. Thought everyone was just being incredibly quiet lol!"

lol! It was about 5 days. That would be super quiet! Though, I did notice GR was quieter in general without the notifications.

[Peggy]

Yes, too much effort to look up all my usual threads by hand all the time in the app.

After two days I got suspicious. We're never THAT quiet ;-)

[Sandra, Moderator]

Fixed for me too!

[Jenn]

I had thought that mine was broken 😞 got a response from them that they were doing some maintenance/rebuilding. I was less panicky after receiving the response, but not really any less frustrated lol I am sooooo glad it’s functioning again 😃

[Saar The Book owl]

Yes, it was annoying that the notification didn't work. I've installed the app, but will de - install it. It works only half!

[Jenn]

I have the app too Saar, but only use it for general stuff (usually). It is so frustrating that you can’t open spoilers, and most posts with pictures 😞

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I don't like the app - prefer to be on the site direct. You would think that as Goodreads is now owned by Amazon they would put some effort into the site and app to make it better.

[Jenn]

Exactly Katie