Category Notifications
It's great that you can bookmark threads so you get notified of updates to those threads. However, is there a way to bookmark a Category so you get notified of new posts?
For example, I'd like to be notified when there's a new post in the Special Events category, News category, Release Notes category, and Tesselation category.
That way when a new post comes in, I can get an email telling me to come back to the forums, and I won't miss things like Niantic announcements.
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@NianticCasey
Not what you might expect, but the community supports RSS. I follow the tessellation that way
I haven't used RSS since Google Reader went offline. #NeverForget
This is a great suggestion, let me look into whether this is technically possible!
Update: That was super easy to implement, you should now see a 'Follow' button at the top of categories. Thanks again for the feedback!
Wow @NianticCasey you better watch out with these fast fixes, or people might expect it to happen more often. :-)
Great!
I followed category but didn't receive any notification when new discussion was created under category.
Is my understanding wrong?
How to use this feature?
Followed categories and also no alerts or notifications received.
Looks like is not working a supposed.
Hi folks,
My apologies, I misunderstood the OP's question. My thought was that there was an appetite to follow specific subcategories to create a custom view of the content that you care about the most. This is what the 'follow' feature allows you to do.
Once you've followed a category, you can now go to the homepage and select to view your followed subcategories:
Alerts already exist for any mention you receive in a discussion thread or when other users comment on a discussion you've created. I'm investigating whether we can enable alerts for any new post in specific subcategories.
Apologies again for the oversight!
Oh, that's less than what I was hoping for but it does help me restrict what forums I view. Thanks anyway!
@NianticCasey is it feasible to add an optional way to link to telegram accounts and get notified by a bot there?
it'll be super cool! and also an extra feature like, reply to message in telegram to post reply, like and other buttons if any could be implemented too.
Telegram integration would be really cool. The TR program, Andrew's group & Essex are already on Telegram anyway. At least a basic syncing of notifs & accounts on profiles to start with.
One way notifications to a Telegram channel I'd see maybe as useful. I think if you added replying in Telegram you'd simply fill this forum with two word posts and snap replies instead of actually seeing people type out paragraphs or even sentences.