The NGO-post team has been working to make the users feel more at home when they visit the site. We are trying to get NGO post delivered to your virtual doorstep (mail inbox!!). Some new features on the site helps users keep track of stories and follow-ups right from their mail ids.
Updates have been made to the site to make it more interactive and user-friendly. An option to receive an email about any comments on posted stories to the member’s email address has been added. Any user posting a story on the site can check on a box which allows the website to mail the member whenever someone comments on the story posted by the member. Members who have posted stories already can also update their stories to receive a mail about the comments posted on those stories! The member has to visit the link to edit the story and at the end of the page, there is a check box that needs to be clicked on to activate this feature!! Hope all of you will love this!!
We are working on making this an option for any member of the site, to receive mails about comments on any story. This would reduce the effort of the member to follow up any story and also keep the member up-to-date with any addendum to stories/articles they are interested in.
Well, keep those eyes and ears open, folks…For NGO-Post is coming with more and more features to make you help yourself and every one in the community better and faster!!
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June 12, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Badhri
Something seems to be wrong. I have posted a story, got a comment, but never got the e-mail (yea checked the check box).
I went back to edit the post, but saw the comment unchecked. I checked it. “preivew and save”d, went back to the post in edit mode, found that the box is unchecked again. Am in Firefox. Is that a problem?
June 16, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Nitin Gupta
The box is probably checked and you should get email. However, there is currently a shortcoming that whenever you do “edit post”, the box gets unchecked at that time, so you have to make sure you check it everytime you edit a story. Are you still not getting emails (make sure your email that you used at the time of registering for NGO Post is correct!, also check your spam-mail folder!).
June 21, 2008 at 4:16 am
Badhri
Do you mean that I should get an e-mail every time I edit my post? I was actually talking about getting an e-mail when someone leaves a comment. Either way, I didn’t receive an e-mail.
I checked that
- the e-mail I mentioned in my profiles “private email” is correct.
- the spam folder doesn’t have your mail
So what else am I supposed to do now?
Further, I have posted a total of three posts of which only one was shown as “posted”. But the other two were shown as “submitted”. One of them was submitted about 8 days ago. Can you please post it so that it can be discussed?
June 21, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Parul Gupta
Hi Badhri,
This has been fixed now .. the box for email subscription to comments is checked by default now and will stay so every time you edit the post. You should get an email when someone leaves a comment, not every time you edit your post.
Clarification on Submitted vs. Published:
Any ’submitted’ story appears on the NGO Post site immediately under the ‘New stories’ tab where users can read, ‘Like’ and discuss it. It gets ‘published’ (i.e. promoted to the main page – the ‘Popular Stories’ tab) only after it receives a certain number of votes. Democratic quality control
June 21, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Badhri
Thanks Parul,
How bout my request to publish the post?
June 21, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Parul Gupta
Your posts are already on the website in the “New stories” section for the users to discuss.
June 22, 2008 at 7:44 am
Badhri
Thanks Parul. Don’t quite know why I asked that last question when you already answered it!
Sorry.
June 23, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Badhri
Just to update,
I got a few comments from you to my posts and they have’t reached may gmail (inbox and junk).
My gmail address is badhrij atttt gmailllll dottt comm
It is not really killing me, but would help me respond instantly