August 23rd was my last little red circle on the bell.
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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.
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!"
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.
Occam’s razor is cutting again what is the simplest reason given based on the info available? They have been installing the 2024 PHB, doing maintenance and updating the character builder with 2024. That is a lot of moving parts to keep track of by the grunts in the trenches - I’m not surprised something like notifications got disrupted. Before spinning conspirac theories about how some sort of “upper management” efforts to control what you see and hear are happening. For my money I’ll bet some programmer turned off some flags and that turn off propagated thru the system thanks to quickie scripting that was not good and clean. After the changes settle in hey will find it and restore the flags and notifications.
Occam’s razor is being used in a vacuum to defend WotC's actions, if you look at WotC's path since acquiring DDB the razor only cut's one way, across the wrists of the player base.
Occam's Razor isn't being used to defend anything. The reality is, if you want to make a convincing case, you need to do at least one of the following
Demonstrate a way that this is actually useful to them (if they want to suppress interest in a particular thread... they can just target that thread. No reason to break things site-wide)
Demonstrate that this couldn't be an accident (as I've had notifications break entirely at random a couple times in the past, I find that unlikely).
Wizards has done plenty of things I don't like, but calling every random bug a conspiracy just makes you look like a conspiracy nut.
It looks like they've unclogged the queue, and they're coming in again. I'm getting notifications from August 25th at the moment, but every time I load a page, the number updates again.
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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
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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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.
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.
Occam’s razor is cutting again what is the simplest reason given based on the info available? They have been installing the 2024 PHB, doing maintenance and updating the character builder with 2024. That is a lot of moving parts to keep track of by the grunts in the trenches - I’m not surprised something like notifications got disrupted. Before spinning conspirac theories about how some sort of “upper management” efforts to control what you see and hear are happening. For my money I’ll bet some programmer turned off some flags and that turn off propagated thru the system thanks to quickie scripting that was not good and clean. After the changes settle in hey will find it and restore the flags and notifications.
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Occam's Razor isn't being used to defend anything. The reality is, if you want to make a convincing case, you need to do at least one of the following
Wizards has done plenty of things I don't like, but calling every random bug a conspiracy just makes you look like a conspiracy nut.
It looks like they've unclogged the queue, and they're coming in again. I'm getting notifications from August 25th at the moment, but every time I load a page, the number updates again.