Specific Thread... unfollow? lol

Amethyst_Unearthed · August 31

is it possible to unfollow or stop notifications from a specific thread? lol i realllllly hope so

ESO_player123 · August 31

How does one follow a thread? I've never knew there is an option for that.

TaSheen · August 31

@Amethyst_Unearthed - AFAIK, there's not a good way to handle that. There have been posts (some quite lengthy) in the past where someone wanted to stop having notifications of posts they didn't even remember following, and the consensus was "there's no way to do that".

@ZOS_Kevin - can you help here?

LunaFlora · August 31

you follow threads by clicking on the star symbol so you click it again to unfollow it.
the star symbol is next to the post's title

ESO_player123 · August 31

LunaFlora wrote: »

you follow threads by clicking on the star symbol so you click it again to unfollow it.
the star symbol is next to the post's title

You mean bookmark?

LunaFlora · August 31

ESO_player123 wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

you follow threads by clicking on the star symbol so you click it again to unfollow it.
the star symbol is next to the post's title

You mean bookmark?

isn't that the same thing as following a thread?

TaSheen · August 31

LunaFlora wrote: »

ESO_player123 wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

you follow threads by clicking on the star symbol so you click it again to unfollow it.
the star symbol is next to the post's title

You mean bookmark?

isn't that the same thing as following a thread?

Not in my experience. When I bookmark a thread here, it's to keep track of it because of some info I may want to access in the future. I don't get notifications when someone posts to the thread in the future. Notifications (um.... keeping FIRMLY in mind that vanilla - the chosen forum backend here - isn't as robust as phpBB for instance) when you activate them generally mean that EVERY time someone posts to a thread where you have notifications enabled, you will receive a notification of that activity by whatever you chose - email or popup on the forum itself, or both.

ESO_player123 · August 31

LunaFlora wrote: »

ESO_player123 wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

you follow threads by clicking on the star symbol so you click it again to unfollow it.
the star symbol is next to the post's title

You mean bookmark?

isn't that the same thing as following a thread?

I do not know, that is why I asked. I've never heard about "following" a thread. That does not mean, of course, that the option does not exist. Hopefully, the OP can clarify how they did it.

LunaFlora · August 31

TaSheen wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

ESO_player123 wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

you follow threads by clicking on the star symbol so you click it again to unfollow it.
the star symbol is next to the post's title

You mean bookmark?

isn't that the same thing as following a thread?

Not in my experience. When I bookmark a thread here, it's to keep track of it because of some info I may want to access in the future. I don't get notifications when someone posts to the thread in the future. Notifications (um.... keeping FIRMLY in mind that vanilla - the chosen forum backend here - isn't as robust as phpBB for instance) when you activate them generally mean that EVERY time someone posts to a thread where you have notifications enabled, you will receive a notification of that activity by whatever you chose - email or popup on the forum itself, or both.

i do get notifications from bookmarked posts, you can enable and disable that in your Notification Preferences.

TaSheen · August 31

Hmm. Interesting. I've never mad any changes to that sort of notification.

Pelanora · August 31

If you click on the star, you get told everytime someone posts to it. If you unclick, that all stops.

Amethyst_Unearthed · September 2

when you comment on a thread it pretty much makes you follow it..... im just over these overland content notifications lol

SilverBride · September 2

I turned off all notifications a long time ago and I'm much happier for it.

LunaFlora · September 2

Amethyst_Unearthed wrote: »

when you comment on a thread it pretty much makes you follow it..... im just over these overland content notifications lol

you can go to your notification preferences and turn that off.
it's "New comments on posts I've participated in"

if you're using the forums on a phone you have to enable desktop mode to get to settings though