Not receiving notifications

I think I'm understanding - most likely I got an alert and then didn't click on it to go over to the thread, thus not generating further alerts. That would track I think. Thanks.

 

I do understand this, and the problem has still occurred regardless (albeit not noticeably for some time now, though my time spent on the site has substantially reduced since 2018 at the peak of my problems so may not be noticing as much).

I never open email notifications for threads I'm following without opening the thread on the forum itself via the email link, partially because I like reading the forum on the forum and precisely for the reason you described. If I catch the post within the email and already know I'm not going to respond to what was said, I still open it so the system knows to send me future notifications and to check if anyone's posted afterwards.

Even if I already opened the link but I see via the in-forum notifications--which I like to keep cleared, which is another reason I always follow the link into the thread itself--that the latest post was posted after I opened the notification, I still go back into my email and reopen the thread from the latest email link specifically so the system knows to send me future emails for that thread.

There have been times that the last time I'd seen a thread I stopped getting notifications for is when I posted on it, so in those situations there either won't have been an email link for me to open in the first place or the last email notification I was sent was the link I followed to get into the thread I then posted on.

I understand that there is no easy explanation for why this happens to me (and, apparently, sometimes other) and there is nothing on your end that you can fix about it, but the issue is not what is outlined above no more now than it was when this thread was first created.

(I do think it's an important thing to remind people of, though, because it may well be the cause of some of the others' problems)

~Thylo