Gather Update: A Preferred Way To Set Email Preferences

Sounds good. Thanks, Gather! Now, could you manage to get the list of the groups I belong to in alphabetical order? As it is, I have to scan up and down the lists (I belong to a lot of groups) and have a terrible time finding what I'm looking for to ensure that I post to the right groups. Just a thought.

Thanks for the update. I would like to see gather recognize time zones. When there was a posting about the site maintenance it was not specified.

I got the email about the ceo chat and it just states Thursday and not a date and not the time zone. I have learned that this is east coast (I am west coast).

I suggest adding a link to a world map site so that members from other countries, etc can have easy access to knowing what this time means to them.

http://www.worldtimezone.com/

This way when they get the notice or read about something occuring at a set time, everyone can input that into the clock site to see what that is for their time zone.

Definitely an improvement. Thanks for the ongoing efforts, but please stop notifying me when I have responded to comments in discussions of my own articles.

Sounds promising.

One step in the right direction. Keep it up.

Thanks for doing this. And I agree with Verie. Alphabetical listings of groups would be so helpful for posting. Sometimes I look at that list 5 or 6 times to find a group I want to post to.

Thanks for the update and info Tom!

Great update! Thank you sooooo much! (I don't think I care that my groups aren't alphabetical, but I really would like to be able to arrange them...say all the poetry groups close to each other, all the cat groups close to each other, all the random groups close...) Sorry, just had to toss that in.

Thank you SOOOO much for cutting the volume in my over-stuffed mailbox!

Hal-Leah-Lou-Yah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom, I've made this Lead Feature of Unofficial Gatherholics.

For awhile, I was getting a newsletter about activity in my network. I think this was around the spring time. I prefer to get all my notifications, but I can understand if people do not prefer that.

Thanks Tom
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Thanks Tom. I would like to be able to arrange my groups also. I wish the groups that I own could be placed separately from the groups I am a member of.

Kathryn- thanks for helping spread the word. We are going to relaunch the daily/weekly updates that you remember for Gather members who want to receive it in October. It will be better organized than before, helping you to scan the lists included more easily.

Thanks, all, for the thoughts on group ordering as well; I will pass this on to our product team right away.

This article is clearing up quite a few mysteries for me and making a few more.

My Notifications page changes from time to time. For example, a few days ago my own Member Resources group disappeared from the list on my settings page. Building a Better Gather used to be on the list, but now they are not, but when I come to the Building a Better Gather page I am still a member. I have changed my password to this account (which I never gave out) several times and even my e-mail so I don't know why this continues to happen.

I think the ideas above are good ideas. I would ask if it was possible on your new settings web page to somehow warn people that when they revise articles or edit comments that this could turn into an e-mail to someone. As I understand, with your new ideas this will not be as much of problem.

I did not realize the full implication of this until Rich commented on my sending an article to different groups at the same time.

As the system is now, I can see where my directory (table of contents) updates from Gathering Stars and Member Resources would be repetitive. I see no way of getting around this.

For myself who (obviously) did not grow up on computers and tags, the table of contents/directory/index concept is very comforting, easy to use and concrete. One of the reasons that people get e-mailed the same articles many times is that people belong to so many similar groups.

Something like a group directory is the most efficient way to avoid repetition. It would also foster creatiivty in that people could see what has gone before and try to come up with something more exciting. There are a lot of creative-and competitive-minds around here.

As an amateur writer, it is a matter of pride to me that my comments and articles are correct and well presented. Unfortunately, I find that I most often find my mistakes after an article or comment is published.

I used to change every comment several times to get it right. Often I would delete them.

Sometimes I would edit articles because the spacing was wrong, to remove the html, for my errors, etc. When I finally noticed the Preview button, I discovered that it didn't work. Now I understand why someone said if you delete things people are suspicious.

This is the way I have always done it (editing). I know from my experience as a blogger that things can show up on a search engine six months after you deleted it. That is why I try to make things as perfect as I can.

I admit I have been more lax with my comments lately since I realized some people get notified about them-and it shows.

When I first joined, someone wrote to me and asked me to share my purpose here. I came here for the Amazon Shorts group, but I quickly discovered what I liked about Gather.

My perception was that the demographic was much closer to my own than what was usual on the Internet. And there were poets and writers here! Eventually I found out that Gather was much more than that.

One of my points is that I think that it is good and necessary for "techies" and on-line entrepreneurs, and I don't even know if techies is politically correct, Tom, speak with their users.

The other point is that I realized that Gather would be a good place to practice how I behave on-line. I told this to the person who enquired as to my purposes. O.k., you can all quit laughing anytime soon.

That is the reason for some of my most recently deleted comments. I don't think I really want to know how many of you know which ones I'm talking about because of the notifications system.

So there you have it, Tom. The person who invented this notification system was a genius. I suppose if I say someone could use it for good or evil, someone else will say I'm paranoid. Those of you who know I'm using hyperbole, I salute you.

Oh my GOSH, thank you! I actually went looking for this group to find a place to post that very suggestion! I've had two people sign up in recent days and then remove their memberships because they "got too many e-mails all the time."

These are not folks who are all that computer-savvy and even though I told them how to change the preferences, the default of all those notifications really turned them off and it was too late. I'm going for a target demographic that's a bit older than your average blogger-type, and they need to be reassured that strangers aren't lurking in the shadows around here. :)

This change will help your membership a great deal, I think!

thanks for making such improvements to gather and keeping us posted.

Thank you soooooo much

Thanks tom.