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Anonymous · 2022-03-17T07:59:46Z

As the site continues to grow and attract new users, we’ve had to ramp up security to protect the site and its users. As a result, we’ve implemented some new security features, especially around user passwords. We are also now aligned with third parties that will inform you if your passwords have been compromised elsewhere on other sites as part of data leaks to protect your account here, and you will not be able use that password on this site.

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mjr

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07/02/2024 5:49 pm

@editor mine look like the two @Transparent posted, now ending with the bar, without the text of the post. Do yours contain the text of the post?

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07/02/2024 5:52 pm

@editor

I am also only receiving e-mail notifications that only contain the following.

Hi Derek M

A new reply has been posted on RE: Forum updates, announcements & issues by mjr.

More annoying I often receive the same posting twice if it requires to be approved, even if I was the one who approved the original posting.

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07/02/2024 5:53 pm

Posted by: @derek-m

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More annoying I often receive the same posting twice if it requires to be approved, even if I was the one who approved the original posting.

That's because you're a moderator, which is why you get it twice.

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07/02/2024 5:56 pm

@mjr they're supposed to look like Transparent's - Ive tried to keep the information as limited as possible to keep the email sizes smaller. Would anyone like more information with these emails?

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07/02/2024 6:02 pm

Having a portion of the body text quoted within the Notification requires a few extra operations:

What should happen if the start of the post is actually a quotation from a previous respondent?
Should that get filtered out so as to leave only text which is being freshly added?

What happens if the start of the post is a graphic?
I am well acquainted with someone who quite often does that. 😉

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Mars

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07/02/2024 6:15 pm

@transparent the main reason I've stayed away from that is because some users have directly replied to the email notification which then gets sent to me via email and isn't posted. So I don't want to encourage that to be honest because even though I've replied to them saying what they've done, they don't want to copy and paste it back into the site... so I figured this was the easiest way not to encourage that - if there's no text there's nothing to reply to.

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07/02/2024 6:28 pm

@editor The email notifications I receive do not contain any body text after the link so this ensures I follow the link to read the text before making any response should I wish to. Do some readers see text in their notifications then? Regards, Toodles.

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07/02/2024 7:25 pm

Posted by: @toodles

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Do some readers see text in their notifications then?

No but we used to. The last messages I saw before it stopped were about the site having problems and crashing, so I thought the empty emails meant the site wasn't fully working yet. It's only now it's been a few weeks and still it sends empty emails that I came back to look.

I thought it was quite useful to see the message so I could think about the reply while starting up the only browser that this site works in, but if the site operators don't want users to visit so often (to ease the load on the server, maybe?), then that's fine and their choice.

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07/02/2024 8:00 pm

Oh, I agree, @editor
I was providing additional reasons as to why the Notifications should not contain any text from the post.

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07/02/2024 8:10 pm

Posted by: @editor

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Posted by: @derek-m

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More annoying I often receive the same posting twice if it requires to be approved, even if I was the one who approved the original posting.

That's because you're a moderator, which is why you get it twice.

I fail to see any reason why it would be deemed necessary for me to be notified once more concerning a post that I have already seen and read and may have approved.

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07/02/2024 9:34 pm

@mjr you are correct – that's the way it did work. There was an issue with some notifications not taking visitors to the last unread post, and I think that the short code behind this may have caused this. So this, coupled with the fact that users aren't encouraged to reply to what they've seen in the email via email, is beneficial.

Given that the emails appear somewhat minimalistic, I'm considering enhancing their design to make the notifications feel more comprehensive and engaging.

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07/02/2024 9:35 pm

@derek-m it's just the way that the people behind the software coded it. I'll ask them if there's a work around, but there's nothing obvious in the current settings.

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