Oleksandr wrote: "Damn, once again notifications don't work at least for me - saw this post in my feed on the main page"
Someone in another group said to log out of goodreads and then log back in. I don't know if this works.
I also went to the moderators thread and asked what they knew about this, and besides what I said somewhere else (cannot find it) they had some insight:
message 675: by ~*~Princess Nya Vasiliev~*~ (last edited 11 hours, 20 min ago) (new) 11 hours, 33 min ago
The best thing you can do at this point, is go to your group's homepages to see all new posts to ensure you don't miss any new ones or new threads being created in your groups. I cannot rely on that notifications bell to tell me everything for my groups, or all of my personal activity. It's dropped the ball plenty of times on that for me. Even though I also have my profile set up to receive all notifications for my groups that I moderate and are just a member of.
There is also another glitch floating around since late Nov 2024-Your icons at the top of your profile not indicating that you have new msgs, friend request and emails. So, you have to get into the habit of actually clicking on these icons yourself, to make sure you do not in fact have an update in there waiting for you. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen often enough that you need to just get into the habit of doing it.
Also, as fickle as they can be, it's still best that you and your members continue to make sure that you are checking those notify me boxes in every thread you follow or post in. And every time you post a review or when someone likes an old review of yours, make sure you check the box on that old review too.
Basically, wherever you can leave a comment on this site, be aware that someone can also leave a response to it for you, and if you don't want to miss that, just make sure you check that notify me box wherever you post anything. I also had to go to all my photos on here and check that box as well, in case someone leaves a comment on them so I can see it.
And new-semi glitch GR is no longer recognizing your last activity on the site properly. This started back in June of 2024. If you are not logging in and out every time you come to the site, it will begin to only show the last time you actively logged in, on your profile.
So, say, you logged in back in Sept 2024, but never physically logged back out. Even though you've been current and active on the site, your profile will say last activity "Sept 2024".. and then after 60 days, it will begin to show this same info next to your profile pic on the group's homepage in the Moderator section, in the groups you moderate. Therefore, making your members or new members or other GR members think you haven't been on the site for months, when you actually have been... So, if you don't already do this, never leave yourself logged onto this website on ANY device you use to utilize GR. Always log on and log off when you're done. You'd be surprised at how many people don't do this, and now it's showing up on their profiles and they're freaking out thinking it's a major glitch when it's actually not.
Hope all this helps.. If you've done all these steps above, you should be okay for the "New Normal" we're all currently living with on this site. If it's still a major issue for you, in getting notifications, I'm afraid the only thing you can do is go to tech support/helpdesk.. But I'm not sure at how much help they'll actually be.
In the meantime, I went to my settings and unchecked all notifications, then went back to the previous page and hit the "save" button. Then I got out of settings, and then went back in and rechecked notifications for the groups I wanted. That seemed to work after a couple of days went by. Did I sign out of GR? I don't have any idea. I basically never do.
But signing out of GR and then signing back in might be the real cure. I don't know if it works because I basically never sign out. So maybe that's the answer.
Oleksandr wrote: "Damn, once again notifications don't work at least for me - saw this post in my feed on the main page"
Someone in another group said to log out of goodreads and then log back in. I don't know if this works.
I also went to the moderators thread and asked what they knew about this, and besides what I said somewhere else (cannot find it) they had some insight:
message 675: by ~*~Princess Nya Vasiliev~*~ (last edited 11 hours, 20 min ago) (new)
11 hours, 33 min ago
The best thing you can do at this point, is go to your group's homepages to see all new posts to ensure you don't miss any new ones or new threads being created in your groups. I cannot rely on that notifications bell to tell me everything for my groups, or all of my personal activity. It's dropped the ball plenty of times on that for me. Even though I also have my profile set up to receive all notifications for my groups that I moderate and are just a member of.
There is also another glitch floating around since late Nov 2024-Your icons at the top of your profile not indicating that you have new msgs, friend request and emails. So, you have to get into the habit of actually clicking on these icons yourself, to make sure you do not in fact have an update in there waiting for you. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen often enough that you need to just get into the habit of doing it.
Also, as fickle as they can be, it's still best that you and your members continue to make sure that you are checking those notify me boxes in every thread you follow or post in. And every time you post a review or when someone likes an old review of yours, make sure you check the box on that old review too.
Basically, wherever you can leave a comment on this site, be aware that someone can also leave a response to it for you, and if you don't want to miss that, just make sure you check that notify me box wherever you post anything. I also had to go to all my photos on here and check that box as well, in case someone leaves a comment on them so I can see it.
And new-semi glitch GR is no longer recognizing your last activity on the site properly. This started back in June of 2024. If you are not logging in and out every time you come to the site, it will begin to only show the last time you actively logged in, on your profile.
So, say, you logged in back in Sept 2024, but never physically logged back out. Even though you've been current and active on the site, your profile will say last activity "Sept 2024".. and then after 60 days, it will begin to show this same info next to your profile pic on the group's homepage in the Moderator section, in the groups you moderate. Therefore, making your members or new members or other GR members think you haven't been on the site for months, when you actually have been... So, if you don't already do this, never leave yourself logged onto this website on ANY device you use to utilize GR. Always log on and log off when you're done. You'd be surprised at how many people don't do this, and now it's showing up on their profiles and they're freaking out thinking it's a major glitch when it's actually not.
Hope all this helps.. If you've done all these steps above, you should be okay for the "New Normal" we're all currently living with on this site. If it's still a major issue for you, in getting notifications, I'm afraid the only thing you can do is go to tech support/helpdesk.. But I'm not sure at how much help they'll actually be.
In the meantime, I went to my settings and unchecked all notifications, then went back to the previous page and hit the "save" button. Then I got out of settings, and then went back in and rechecked notifications for the groups I wanted. That seemed to work after a couple of days went by. Did I sign out of GR? I don't have any idea. I basically never do.
But signing out of GR and then signing back in might be the real cure. I don't know if it works because I basically never sign out. So maybe that's the answer.
Good luck, all