Browser Notifications on WordPress.com

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Sue Vincent

I wonder if this is what they have been playing at…and why I keep finding that “you have blocked all email notifications” message… when I haven’t…

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About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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52 Responses to Browser Notifications on WordPress.com

  1. Chris The Story Reading Ape's avatar The Story Reading Ape says:
    August 10, 2016 at 19:40

    It seems to be for the self-hosting blogs though Sue 🤔

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  2. Noah Weiss's avatar Noah Weiss says:
    August 10, 2016 at 19:40

    I find that I would rather get e-mail notifications and read the posts from my e-mail rather than taking push-notifications or going to the WordPress Reader.

    The problem with the WordPress Reader is that it’s a clunky interface and I like the deletion of the e-mail as my signal that I have read the post.

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    • Sue Vincent's avatar Sue Vincent says:
      August 10, 2016 at 20:11

      Yes, I prefer email too. I focus better on each article when there aren’t others around it… and that delete at the end helps m keep track too. I miss way too much with the Reader.

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      • Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, MCC, SCAC's avatar Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, MCC, SCAC says:
        August 11, 2016 at 10:09

        Not crazy about email either anymore (can barely keep up with the e-glut), but the WordPress reader is clunky and needs work – like much on the platform. But what do they choose to work on instead? Developing the chronic distraction potential of PUSH notifications!

        And I can’t even avoid them by closing WordPress windows or signing out? I can only imagine the bazillion ways THAT could go wrong – these guys don’t test first. Clearly. ::sigh:: Get me to an ashram. 🙂
        xx,
        mgh
        (Madelyn Griffith-Haynie – ADDandSoMuchMore dot com)
        – ADD Coach Training Field founder; ADD Coaching co-founder –
        “It takes a village to transform a world!”

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        • Sue Vincent's avatar Sue Vincent says:
          August 11, 2016 at 12:36

          I haven’t liked the Reader since they messed about with it last yea… but the emails I can control at least. As long as they don’t sign me out of them every two minutes…:)

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          • Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, MCC, SCAC's avatar Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, MCC, SCAC says:
            August 11, 2016 at 21:21

            I’ve never really found the WordPress Reader to be helpful – and it seems buggy. I hear there are other readers – but have no idea how to hook them up (and little interest in investigating, in any case).

            I managed email fairly well with a POP3 account – downloaded onto my very own computer to access offline (before Qualcomm released Eudora Pro into public domain (which ruined the functionality — attempting to “simplify” for the masses, I guess). Now that everything seems to be cloud-based, not much really works well for my brain-style (or the limits of my computer memory) anymore.

            The timing me out “for my protection” nonsense makes me crazy[er]. 🙂

            UGH – just thinking about it makes that ashram idea sound really good right now.
            xx,
            mgh

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  4. Garden Girls's avatar samanthamurdochblog says:
    August 10, 2016 at 22:02

    I hate reading something that’s supposed to be helpful and informative when I only understand about one sentence in three.. .

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  5. Marilyn Armstrong's avatar Marilyn Armstrong says:
    August 10, 2016 at 22:07

    I’m also an email user by STRONG preference. I keep wanting to like the Reader, but I don’t. I don’t mind getting notifications, but I hope this doesn’t mean they are going to stop sending email notifications. That message — which i didn’t get — is pretty unclear. I’m not sure what to expect. Thanks for the heads up!

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  6. Eliza Waters's avatar Eliza Waters says:
    August 10, 2016 at 22:20

    They can’t stop fiddling around, can they?

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  7. lauramacky's avatar lauramacky says:
    August 10, 2016 at 22:54

    If I agreed to all notifications from every place that’s all I’d be looking at all day!

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  8. socialbridge's avatar socialbridge says:
    August 10, 2016 at 23:35

    It all begs the question of why fiddle about?

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  9. Tessa's avatar Tessa says:
    August 11, 2016 at 01:36

    I don’t see them on Microsoft’s Edge browser. Only available on Chrome and FireFox and that’s the newest versions of them. That is what the email I got today said.

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  10. KL Caley's avatar KL Caley says:
    August 11, 2016 at 07:50

    Thanks for sharing this Sue! I might try enabling this, I’m not great at monitoring the notifications on my mobile I seem to click them read without reading. The email function is great but you just end up with so many I end up replying days too late :(. So this may be a good in between for me :). KL ❤

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    • Sue Vincent's avatar Sue Vincent says:
      August 11, 2016 at 07:57

      I’ve staggered the emails so that some come instantly, some daily, some weekly… it helps. I miss too much otherwise. But I only get emails for posts from blogs I follow, not for likes and comments. Those I get direct on the blog itself.
      Chris pointed out that this sems to be for self-hosters at the moment though.

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  11. Gradmama2011's avatar Gradmama2011 says:
    August 11, 2016 at 14:31

    omgosh… my blood runs cold…just thinking about “improvements” …

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  12. Widdershins's avatar Widdershins says:
    August 11, 2016 at 21:46

    I think i may have used the Reader once or twice when I was setting up my blog, just to see what it was all about. I realised that all it did was duplicate what I’d already set up via email, and that was that!

    It seems highly plausible they were ‘tinkering’ (as they are wont to do far too often) and you got caught up in an errant ‘tink’. 🙂

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