The Lost Challenges discussion

Goodreads has changed everyone's message setting to friends only. This means that when Penni sends out the newsletter you will not receive one unless you change this setting.

Click on your photo circle at the top right on the goodreads bar and select
Account Settings. Then go to SETTINGS and change -
Who Can Send Me Private Messages:
anyone just my friends

Click on anyone and then you will be able to continue receiving the newsletter and other messages from the group. Make sure you save your changes at the bottom of the page.

Thank you!!

JoAnne wrote: "Goodreads has changes everyone's message setting to friends only. This means that when Penni sends out the newsletter you will not receive one unless you change this setting.

Click on your photo c..."

Oh cool, I'm glad it can still be changed. I read a post from another group and got it in my brain that it defaulted and there was no other choice lol. Now if I could just get the stupid "I'm not a robot" thingy to show up so I can click it. Made my changes, but for some reason that thingy isn't showing up. Will keep trying!

Glitches!! Not fun!

JoAnne wrote: "Glitches!! Not fun!"

Right? Probably overloaded with people trying to fix their accounts. Those mod newsletters are real helpful, and I'd hate to have to give those up lol. Will keep on tryin!

Wish there was a setting between Friends and Anyone. I don't want to get messages from just anyone with a GR account, but I don't want to limit it to only my Friends either.

Barb wrote: "Wish there was a setting between Friends and Anyone. I don't want to get messages from just anyone with a GR account, but I don't want to limit it to only my Friends either."

I wish there was too! Like if it could sort out mods and group owners, that'd be awesome.

Barb wrote: "Wish there was a setting between Friends and Anyone. I don't want to get messages from just anyone with a GR account, but I don't want to limit it to only my Friends either."

I haven't really found the everyone setting to be a problem. If someone keeps PM'ing or weirds me out you can block them. I've only had it happen a couple times in many years time.

It makes me angry that they do these kinds of thing without notifying people. It took me a couple days to realize the reason I wasn't getting a response to mod messages sent was because no one was getting them. Frustrating.

i stopped getting messages for no reason then all of a sudden they started appearing again.

getting messages from everyone isn't really a problem for me either you just get messages on all the topics you're following and if you don't want to follow that topic, don't open that message.

PepperP0t wrote: "i stopped getting messages for no reason then all of a sudden they started appearing again.

getting messages from everyone isn't really a problem for me either you just get messages on all the to..."

I think the setting for getting messages on topics (email notifications) is different than this issue. What GR did is change everyone's default for private messages - so when we mods send out newsletters, announcements, or try and contact a person directly instead of blasting their name throughout the group we can't do it - unless the person changes their setting for PM's back to everyone.

For the emails on notifications of threads - you can turn that on and off in the settings also - and you can turn off whether you get notifications at all on a thread by thread basis.

but when they did whatever they did i didn't get messages for 2 months no matter what the settings were. i got NO gr messages at all except one or two PM's

PepperP0t wrote: "but when they did whatever they did i didn't get messages for 2 months no matter what the settings were. i got NO gr messages at all except one or two PM's"

That was a completely different issue. They turned them off on purpose for like two months to put in some other crappy change. Then pretty consistently they break notifications for a few hours or a few days. But this was an intentional "FIX" to keep us all from getting spammed by people we don't know, by turning off a setting without telling us they did it. And in order to get the stuff you want? You have to turn it back on and you still get spammed. If you were even getting spammed at all which I think most had no problem with. Not a fix at all.

Pretty much everything they do is crap.

They finally fixed the app when you friend people to actually make them answer the security question before sending the friend request - and broke it in the desktop version. Now you can't enter anything and can't friend them from the desktop if they have a security question.

People were making links that sent people to questionable sites so they made it so we can't put external links at all - so links to spinners, and dice rollers, and challenge stuff - just can't do it anymore.

Amazon wants the business of linking us to them so they can hawk the books, but not interested in the actual community and what it does.

Amen, Penni!

Oh and I was finally able to switch the message setting so I can get newsletters, then I took away the useless security question for friending-glad to know it wasn't just me it didn't work for. I vet any friend requests anyway so no real need for it. If it looks like a fake account, nope!

they could have done it a better way, but I actually like this new feature. I did not want to get newsletters and stuff and this gives me the option to not get them anymore.

I sometimes wonder if the people who make these decisions actually *use GoodReads for much of anything at all.

Second that!! :)

Barb wrote: "I sometimes wonder if the people who make these decisions actually *use GoodReads for much of anything at all."

They don't.

ok people. I thought with this new privacy settings I can only get pn's from friends (and this would finally free me from those monthly newsletters) - why did I just got a newsletter from somebody I'm not friends with?! 😭

Rosa wrote: "ok people. I thought with this new privacy settings I can only get pn's from friends (and this would finally free me from those monthly newsletters) - why did I just got a newsletter from somebody ..."

Was it from a moderator?

yes, it says TLC mods and that is an account I'm not 'friends' with?

I read in another group that it was GR's way of appeasing the mods by making the mods able to send PMs w/o being friends.

I'm sorry. Can you just trash it?

JoAnne wrote: "I read in another group that it was GR's way of appeasing the mods by making the mods able to send PMs w/o being friends.

I'm sorry. Can you just trash it?"

sure I can, it's not your fault. I just get so annoyed at GR, because what's about this? either block every non-friend or no one, but have rules for some but not for others? change the rules every day just the way you feel? I have enough of this sh*t with my boss at work, I don't need it in my spare time either, I think I need to take a break from GR

Oh Rosa, I understand your frustration, but we would miss you!