The forum has lost its usefulness...

I Am most likely wrong about this, but you either subscribe to email notifications for All discussions or you turn it off for all discussions. I didn't find a way to turn it off for a specific thread. I NEVER used email notifications for updates except for helpful or solved answers. There is no way I want my inbox flooded with that many emails every day.

If you tap or click on your avatar in the upper left corner like I showed in my earlier post, you can select your Preferences. You can shut off email notifications In the preferences pane. Like I said, As far as I know, there is no way to get email notifications for selective discussions.

I think that you automatically receive EMail notifications for any discussion you participate in--unless you turn it off for that particular thread. I hope it still works that way as I like to see the follow up on discussions I am interested in, but don't want mail box full of notifications on other subjects. If you follow Meg's instructions at the top of the page, you can turn notifications off and on for any particular thread.

I follow every thread that I participate in and I only get emails for the helpful and solved discussions. Like I said, I could be mistaken about how this works, and I must be if you say otherwise, but I DO follow every discussion that I participate in, and I never get an email notification when the discussion is updated.

I knew that this thread was updated because I could see the bold type in my/content view.

I get an EMail each time a new reply is added to a discussion I am following--I just got one noting your last reply, Demo. As Meg instructed. you can uncheck the blue check mark at the top of the page and the notifications stop. You must have something set in preferences that limits your notifications to helpful or solved. I just checked the preferences page--right at the top you can make that choice.

frazzm737 wrote:

You must have something set in preferences that limits your notifications to helpful or solved. I just checked the preferences page--right at the top you can make that choice.

I obviously did a really poor job of explaining myself, but that is exactly what I was trying to say. 😁

At least we are on the same page now! For the next few days I will probably still be wandering around here in the dark...

I Agree the set up seems better for those asking questions. If I understand how it works: any question with recent activity hops to the top. A question can easily not get any responses and fall lower and lower on the list.

it isn't often a question actually gets marked as answered.

under the old format, I noticed questions with no responses all the time, hours later. I always made an effort to answer reasonable questions that had no responses.

in this way the new format doesn't work for the questioner.

I fully agree.The way to help the questioner is to make it easier for the people doing the answering. The new format doesn't help anybody. On a positive note we can finally send smiley faces from our iPads. 😀

Agreed, apparently Apple doesn't want my help anymore, far to many hoops to jump through to find one unanswered post, or even where I replied. 😟➖

Yes, tons of content is missing, helping others has ground to a halt, lots and lots of VERY USEFUL content has been gutted and eliminated.

intuitive flow has been removed.

Without question your position is strongly felt by others who have spent many endless countless 10s of 1000s of hours here.

It isnt a 'redesign', in fact it a synergistic removal of productivity, flow, intuition, and logical constructive coherency. 😉😉

BDAqua wrote:

Agreed, apparently Apple doesn't want my help anymore, far to many hoops to jump through to find one unanswered post, or even where I replied. 😟➖

and we all thought/said the same thing last time the forums were "updated"...

Watching and Waiting (by the Moody Blues) seems fitting as the tide of iOssification rushes in & engulfs something that will soon be naught but a fond memory.

Watching and Waiting (by the Moody Blues) seems fitting as the tide of iOssification rushes in & engulfs something that will soon be naught but a fond memory.

Not to mention there's an echo in here. No wonder, with all this white space!

John Galt wrote:

A lot of the improvements appear to be intended to more effectively help those who come here seeking answers, and less for those seeking to help them. If you look at it from that perspective it makes sense.

Actually, it makes no sense at all, who do you think answers the questions, especially in the Pro Software categories. The points I have come from a single forum, Logic Pro. It's much more difficult to navigate and follow threads.. and I don't want my mailbox cluttered with Apple forum notifications. Only Apple would think less information is helpful. It's Jive all right, jive ***.

If you ask me the Forums have been setup for iOS mobile devices, new phones and tablets, not so much for desktop software support.