We’re just about to push some big changes to the way you interact with each other and with other elements of the site (spots, events, groups, jobs and classifieds).
Basically we’ve just made it possible to “follow” most anything on the site, and this is the one standard conduit for indicating your on-going interest in something.
Simply put, stuff that you follow will result in notifications (the number next to the number of pm’s you have) on the site.
If you follow
- a person – you’ll be notified of most anything they do, like review a spot, post a classified, attend an event, join a group
- a spot – you’ll be notified when they have a new event, or when they have a new bizlog post
- an event – you’ll be notified when someone else decides to attend or watch, or when the event is edited
- a question – you’ll be notified when a new answer is posted
- a group – you’ll be notified about new discussions and new members joining
For groups and events the following is implicit – when you join a group or indicate attendance status on an event you’ll automatically be following it. For the others there are buttons to click to follow them, or you can follow spots when reviewing them, and questions when answering.
The accompanying big change with this code push is that notifications are now in a drop down from the header (click the number of new notifications and you’ll see notifications). We’ve also aggregated some types of notification so you won’t see 100 of the same “x answered the question y” notification.
With any change this big we expect there to be some teething problems so, as always, please send your bug reports (with as much detail as possible) to tech@newhanoian.com.
So, can we now delete followers we don’t want stalking us?
Yes, you can. Additionally, if you specify a reason why you’re blocking them they will receive that as a message when you execute the block.