Forum notifications of archived topics

[Oztravels]

Can anyone shed light on why I get these notifications?

[Newpetlover]

I was wondering too. It seems there has been a change in the implications that the setting of our preferences has.
After a bit of searching I have come to the conclusion that they have included by default some notifications, like informing when a thread we have followed has been solved.

Yesterday, I changed my preference in a thread to normal but this morning I still got lots of “solved” notifications. Then I realized that if you read a topic, they automatically set it on “tracking”

These are the options for every thread:

As I don’t want to know how many of the threads I have ever read have been solved by a moderator who is doing a bit of tidying up on old threads, I then went to preferences settings on my profile, then “notifications” and unmarked “solved” notifications.

I hope this helps.

[Newpetlover]

Notifications of “likes” has also been changed. I have accidentally found out when trying to avoid receiving all these “solved” notifications.

To my surprise, the new default for “likes” is “first time a post is liked”

Why someone would think that I would be more interested in knowing that a moderator has decided to “solve” a post that I once read three years ago than in knowing that someone has liked one of my posts is a mystery to me.

Anyway, I am celebrating. My self esteem is back to normal now that I know that people who used to “like” my posts still do.
To be honest, I was a bit puzzled trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.

@Oztravels, I hope you don’t mind my using your thread to add this bit of information about settings. As this is not, strictly speaking, about archived topics, I could open a new thread if you prefer.

[ziggy]

These topics are just being archived by Sam. Seems she has been tasked with doing this job. When you have commented on a topic, it automatically sends out the notification. Don’t open them, just click “dismiss” at the bottom of the messages and it clears them all. They are becoming a nuisance, yes.

[Crookie]

Thank you @Newpetlover I’ve now turned off my “solved” notifications too. I knew that the forum mods were archiving old threads but couldn’t work out why I was getting notified about that. Mystery solved!

[Mark_B]

For anyone looking to customise their forum notifications;

• Select your profile picture to open up the menu
• Select the Profile sub-menu (human silhouette icon)
• Choose Preferences
• Customise your notifications using the ‘Notifications’ and ‘Tracking’ menu’s

Sorry that these notifications have become irksome.
The archiving process we’re going through is a net positive for the forum overall. We made the decision not to disable all solved notifications during this process, though I appreciate the notifications may be annoying for long standing forum members.

We appreciate your patience.