August 23rd was my last little red circle on the bell.
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Likely has something to do with narrative control, like not wanting us to know when the "rules" have been unfairly been contorted to twist the narrative being pushed that day.
Likely has something to do with narrative control, like not wanting us to know when the "rules" have been unfairly been contorted to twist the narrative being pushed that day.
There is that, though I think is is a little less sinister.
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CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
More likely you are vastly overestimating the degree of social engineering WotC cares to exercise over the forums. They've been doing a bunch of maintenance lately, someone probably broke something but adding and fixing the PHB has been too much of a priority to fix it.
Likely has something to do with narrative control, like not wanting us to know when the "rules" have been unfairly been contorted to twist the narrative being pushed that day.
Do you ever do the basic step of asking yourself "How would this be useful towards that end?" Removing notifications doesn't prevent anyone from finding anything out, it just makes it more annoying, and it's incredibly obvious. I assume it's a bug, either a side effect of maintenance or a side effect of removing high activity threads.
Likely has something to do with narrative control, like not wanting us to know when the "rules" have been unfairly been contorted to twist the narrative being pushed that day.
Notification issues happen every now and then - it is clearly a bit of an unstable system that can break at the drop of a hat. Considering the massive amount of maintenance happening recently, it is hardly surprising this incredibly fragile system broke while other things were moving about. Perfect example of Godwin’s Hanlon’s razor - never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to stupidity.
Frankly your conspiratorial post begs the question - where is the malice more likely? In the fragile system which breaks regularly? Or from an alternate account created during a controversy with an unsubtle “I want this site to die” username?
Notification issues happen every now and then - it is clearly a bit of an unstable system that can break at the drop of a hat
Tacking on to that I've seen delays in notifications at times I've seen some threads/subforums more active than usual. So the increased forum and homebrew activity following the original changelog falls into that pattern of "Increased Activity = Notifications Decide To Die."
They've been doing a bunch of maintenance lately, someone probably broke something but adding and fixing the PHB has been too much of a priority to fix it.
Yep. I'd initially been hopeful that 9/3 maintenance would fix it, but seeing all the bugs that have come up with the 5.5 PHB means it's probably gonna be a good while before they give the notifications a go.
Likely has something to do with narrative control, like not wanting us to know when the "rules" have been unfairly been contorted to twist the narrative being pushed that day.
Notification issues happen every now and then - it is clearly a bit of an unstable system that can break at the drop of a hat. Considering the massive amount of maintenance happening recently, it is hardly surprising this incredibly fragile system broke while other things were moving about. Perfect example of Godwin’s Hanlon’s razor - never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to stupidity.
Frankly your conspiratorial post begs the question - where is the malice more likely? In the fragile system which breaks regularly? Or from alternate account created during a controversy with an unsubtle “I want this site to die” username?
Sure in a vacuum this seems benign, but given WotC's actions inclusively since acquiring DDB I'd say my theory has sand, where as your unwavering commitment to them is more than a little sus and only adds credence to my argument.
While we're here, I would love it if there was a New Threads canned search that skipped the Play By Post forum. Much of the time, those threads are dominant but not ones I can drop into, and sometimes I find it hard to guess where the new content that interests me is.
I also wouldn't mind a canned search that showed me all the threads with new posts that I've ever clicked into, not just where I've posted. I realize I can Subscribe to threads and maybe I'll start doing that, but it's an extra step.
My last notification was Aug. 24. When did the party wizard disappear? Maybe he was in charge of notifications. To me, that seems much more likely than the conspiracy theories.
Likely has something to do with narrative control, like not wanting us to know when the "rules" have been unfairly been contorted to twist the narrative being pushed that day.
Notification issues happen every now and then - it is clearly a bit of an unstable system that can break at the drop of a hat. Considering the massive amount of maintenance happening recently, it is hardly surprising this incredibly fragile system broke while other things were moving about. Perfect example of Godwin’s Hanlon’s razor - never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to stupidity.
Frankly your conspiratorial post begs the question - where is the malice more likely? In the fragile system which breaks regularly? Or from alternate account created during a controversy with an unsubtle “I want this site to die” username?
Sure in a vacuum this seems benign, but given WotC's actions inclusively since acquiring DDB I'd say my theory has sand, where as your unwavering commitment to them is more than a little sus and only adds credence to my argument.
There is no "credence" to "they broke notifications to CONTROL YOUR SPEECH!!1!1!"
Likely has something to do with narrative control, like not wanting us to know when the "rules" have been unfairly been contorted to twist the narrative being pushed that day.
Notification issues happen every now and then - it is clearly a bit of an unstable system that can break at the drop of a hat. Considering the massive amount of maintenance happening recently, it is hardly surprising this incredibly fragile system broke while other things were moving about. Perfect example of Godwin’s Hanlon’s razor - never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to stupidity.
Frankly your conspiratorial post begs the question - where is the malice more likely? In the fragile system which breaks regularly? Or from alternate account created during a controversy with an unsubtle “I want this site to die” username?
Sure in a vacuum this seems benign, but given WotC's actions inclusively since acquiring DDB I'd say my theory has sand, where as your unwavering commitment to them is more than a little sus and only adds credence to my argument.
There is no "credence" to "they broke notifications to CONTROL YOUR SPEECH!!1!1!"
That is flat-earth level nonsense.
Odd that it happened during the massive pushback about the change log.
Odd that it happened during the massive pushback about the change log.
It could easily be related -- for example, it might be broken for everyone who was subscribed to that thread when it was removed, that's a perfectly plausible bug -- but that doesn't mean that notifications stopping is itself anything but a bug.
Odd that it happened during the massive pushback about the change log.
It could easily be related -- for example, it might be broken for everyone who was subscribed to that thread when it was removed, that's a perfectly plausible bug -- but that doesn't mean that notifications stopping is itself anything but a bug.
Is there a reason or a setting I no longer get notifications when someone responds to a thread I am in?
I have not changed any settings so any info could help.
However, I will probably not see a response as I don't get notices anymore
August 23rd was my last little red circle on the bell.
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I assumed I had changed some setting unintentionally. Seems it is not just a me issue.
25th August was my last notification.
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[Flourishing], [Sanguine],[Themberchaud], [Baldur's Gate 3], [Lego].Yeah, august 25th appears to be when it broke. If you go into https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/subscriptions it still shows changes to your subscribed threads.
I think it coincides with when a number of the threads about the character builder got nuked.
Neat, thank you 🙂
I looked in my thread settings and it seems to have been changed to an email notice
Likely has something to do with narrative control, like not wanting us to know when the "rules" have been unfairly been contorted to twist the narrative being pushed that day.
There is that, though I think is is a little less sinister.
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
More likely you are vastly overestimating the degree of social engineering WotC cares to exercise over the forums. They've been doing a bunch of maintenance lately, someone probably broke something but adding and fixing the PHB has been too much of a priority to fix it.
Do you ever do the basic step of asking yourself "How would this be useful towards that end?" Removing notifications doesn't prevent anyone from finding anything out, it just makes it more annoying, and it's incredibly obvious. I assume it's a bug, either a side effect of maintenance or a side effect of removing high activity threads.
Notification issues happen every now and then - it is clearly a bit of an unstable system that can break at the drop of a hat. Considering the massive amount of maintenance happening recently, it is hardly surprising this incredibly fragile system broke while other things were moving about. Perfect example of Godwin’s Hanlon’s razor - never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to stupidity.
Frankly your conspiratorial post begs the question - where is the malice more likely? In the fragile system which breaks regularly? Or from an alternate account created during a controversy with an unsubtle “I want this site to die” username?
Tacking on to that I've seen delays in notifications at times I've seen some threads/subforums more active than usual. So the increased forum and homebrew activity following the original changelog falls into that pattern of "Increased Activity = Notifications Decide To Die."
Yep. I'd initially been hopeful that 9/3 maintenance would fix it, but seeing all the bugs that have come up with the 5.5 PHB means it's probably gonna be a good while before they give the notifications a go.
Until then there's workarounds.
The one I've used is hovering over my pfp and accessing the Threads option. That brings up a list of threads you've posted in and their recent activity.
Link: https://www.dndbeyond.com/new-content?filter-date-range-type=4&filter-association-type=3
The other one I've seen is to access all your subscriptions. For that go to Account -> Notifications and then you can check by Article, Thread, or Users.
Link: https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/subscriptions/forum-threads
Benefits of the Threads option is one less click. Benefit of the Account/Notifications option is a fuller list.
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Sure in a vacuum this seems benign, but given WotC's actions inclusively since acquiring DDB I'd say my theory has sand, where as your unwavering commitment to them is more than a little sus and only adds credence to my argument.
While we're here, I would love it if there was a New Threads canned search that skipped the Play By Post forum. Much of the time, those threads are dominant but not ones I can drop into, and sometimes I find it hard to guess where the new content that interests me is.
I also wouldn't mind a canned search that showed me all the threads with new posts that I've ever clicked into, not just where I've posted. I realize I can Subscribe to threads and maybe I'll start doing that, but it's an extra step.
My last notification was Aug. 24.
When did the party wizard disappear? Maybe he was in charge of notifications. To me, that seems much more likely than the conspiracy theories.
There is no "credence" to "they broke notifications to CONTROL YOUR SPEECH!!1!1!"
That is flat-earth level nonsense.
Odd that it happened during the massive pushback about the change log.
As to the ad hominem attack, yet more credence.
It could easily be related -- for example, it might be broken for everyone who was subscribed to that thread when it was removed, that's a perfectly plausible bug -- but that doesn't mean that notifications stopping is itself anything but a bug.
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