TLDR: If you use email notifications from Discourse to know when to visit the site, please review your settings.
Hi there!
We have recently been working on a few things to improve your experience at the Open Robotics Discourse, including adding new categories for our other projects, migrating the Gazebo Discourse to this one, and resolving an email limits problem due to overactive notification settings.
We’ve finalised the changes to email settings, which has resolved our email limits problem. However, it may have changed how emails that you were relying on are provided.
Here’s what has changed. The following only applies to users who have never changed their notifications from the defaults.
- The ROS General category, which was previously watched (all posts, not just new topics) by default by all users, is no longer watched by default.
- The OSRA news and community news are now watched by default. All new topics will generate an email notification. Replies to those topics will not generate an email notification.
- A weekly activity digest will be generated by Discourse and emailed to you.
If you have, at any time, changed which categories you receive notifications for, then it is unlikely that anything has changed. However, I strongly recommend that you verify your notification settings. If you haven’t changed the defaults, then I still recommend that you verify your notification settings to ensure you receive the notifications you want from the Open Robotics Discourse.
You can find the notification settings in your user preferences. Click your avatar in the top right, click the little person icon, and select “Preferences.”
Click on the Emails, Notifications, and Tracking tabs and ensure the settings there meet your needs.
The “Tracking” tab controls which categories and topics you receive notifications for. I recommend that you add categories you are interested in to the “Watching First Post” setting. This will notify you of new topics, but not overload you with notifications for every reply to those topics.
