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Thanks, Anna! I've been wondering why nobody is posting, only to realize people have been posting I just wasn't notified! Going to use the discussions button more now, and will try if reporting it helps.
Yeah. The website is so glitchy right now.
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Ooooooh, I just got a notif that was only 30min late! :oedit: And another one, only 13min!!!
Another weird thing is that, unlike ever before, the notifs on my phone and on the desktop are coming at wildly different times. And they even state different times for the posts. I'm getting stuff on my phone now that I got on the desktop about an hour ago. And the "new" notifs are only on the desktop.
As always, I have to wonder what kind of Frankenstein's monster this thing is?! Most bugs don't make any sense XD
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Yeah, it is really strange. For some threads I get the notifications nearly timely, for others there is a delay of up to a day. I started browsing the groups indivudially for the topics I'm interested in.
I just got almost on time notifs, so I'm a little bit hopeful they're actually fixing it! Still not on my phone tho, just desktop.
I’m getting a rush of notifications for threads whose posts I’ve already read (due to an initial post being so delayed). They are all coming in now.
Me too. I kept thinking of something is new but no is just the backlog I guess
I got zero notifications showing for over a day, then just ended up with 47 posts this morning. Amazon, who owns GR, doesn't seem to care much about it.
Wow, GR support stepping it up, I already got a reply! :o A couple of hours ago in fact."Our developers are aware of this issue and are working on fixing it. While there’s no confirmed fix date yet to share, this bug is prioritized in our development team’s backlog – we hope to fix this soon. Your report has been added to the developer ticket."
What bugs me more is that if I visit a notification on my PC, let's say on Friday, and then turn on WiFi/data on my phone during my Monday commute, it gives me all the weekend notifications even though I already visited them on my PC.
... aaand back to not getting the notifications ... ^^' Fun time!
Glad I am not alone, this is so confusing
That's interesting they responded so fast.
Silvana wrote: "Glad I am not alone, this is so confusing"Well, I also am glad if I'm not alone.
I'd feel better if it were on the Known Issues page, which it is not.
https://help.goodreads.com/s/announce...
I get a Notification, get all excited, then come to find out it's something that a) I already saw and b) happened 3-4 hours earlier
Yup. Getting some repeat notification here, too 🤷♂️ Not the biggest trouble as far as complications go, I find.(Not getting notifications at all for days definitely was).
I'm starting to get endless email notifications. The email digest doesn't work, and now I'm getting it for topics I've never posted in. I turned off all email except for notifications in goodreads. But I still get all those emails and then notifications is pinging me for groups I normally do not care to get any notifications for. It's exhausting. Not to mention I get over 200 emails from goodreads every morning. If I'm lucky, otherwise it's more.*sighs*
Oh my. I’m glad I turned off email except for a daily digest in another group a long time ago. I never could cope with so many emails. I have way too many as it is!
Yeah, apparently turning off the notices doesn't matter right now. They just keep pouring in. *sighs*
This makes me realize I haven’t been getting my daily digests for a while. Huh.
Mr CBR would "kill me" if I turned on notifications because his is the main Amazon account. He's not too happy about the ereaderiq price drop notifications...
Anyone else lost all notifications again?
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Yes, and those I’ve gotten this morning, I saw yesterday already.
and i keep getting the same couple of notifications over and over and over and over and over again - and it seems to be doing that the last week. maybe i should turn them off and on again 😂
Allison wrote: "This is almost completely unusable as is."Yes - especially when combined with "Goodreads request took too long" page load failures.
Nicol wrote: "and i keep getting the same couple of notifications over and over and over and over and over again..."Like an echo in the quiet ^^'
Two days ago I went intoAccount Settings > Emails > "See all discussions I’m following"
and clicked through every page to check the settings. Some topics were set to "Individual" or "All" instead "Notification only" as I would like. I changed all radio buttons to "Notification only" then went "back to account settings" and hit "Save email settings" button.
That seemed to cut down on some of the emails.
I've been such a whiny b*tch about GR stuff so I just wanted to say that I am very happy to have working notifications!(I hope I didn't jinx it.)
I started getting emails again for the one group I have set for email digest. Dating back to April 21st! I think I’m up to April 27th now all in one day. 🧐
I just got an email notification, when I followed the link it took me to advertisement on wayfair then amazon. Has that happened to anyone else? I checked the sender before I did and it was definitely from goodreads - even stranger the notification was about a comment on a review, and there is no comment, the user does not exist - 🤷🏻♀️
Nicol wrote: "I just got an email notification, when I followed the link it took me to advertisement on wayfair then amazon. Has that happened to anyone else?"Yes. It’s a spam/scam tactic. They’re adding a comment with a “…more” hyperlink at the end that they’ve added themselves. That hyperlink goes to whatever they really want you to see such as a product on Amazon. They’re hoping people will click on their own embedded “more” link instead of the legitimate “See more on Goodreads” link that Goodreads always includes with the comment e-mails.
Then I guess either they’re deleting their own account, or somebody else who received the scam reported them and Goodreads deleted them. In any case, by the time you see it, the comment and user may no longer exist, but you already have the e-mail with the link so they’ve managed to get their message through regardless of what happens to their account.
I fell for one too this past Tuesday, reading through e-mails quickly and not paying enough attention to what I was clicking on. Now I’m paying more attention!
Is anyone having problems receiving notifications on the homepage? The few notifications I have received today are from postings in discussion groups from yesterday. If I go to my Groups page, then I can see that there are new postings.
Yes, I was just noticing this myself.
Anna wrote: "Yep, it started yesterday."I am getting email notifications though. Last time I think those failed too.
I'm not getting notifications at all. I had to go into our group and search our discussions in order to find this. Goodreads is certainly unreliable. Anna, I know this surprises you 😉
Goodreads is totally reliable, I don’t know what you two are talking about! You can rely on one or more key parts breaking periodically. You can rely on some functions lacking a rational design. And I’m told you can rely on the app being horrible no matter which platform you prefer. ;)Like Meredith, I’m getting e-mail notifications for everything (as far as I can tell) this time. I don’t usually look at the online notifications but, now that I have, I see I’m missing everything I’ve been notified about via e-mail today except for the like and review comment notifications.
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https://help.goodreads.com/s/question...
Based on this I'm not hopeful they're doing anything about it, but maybe if we all contact them with reports? Contact form is here.
Feel free to use this thread for any notif related questions/comments!