Hey Ruth, to change your notification settings there's two things you need to do:

1. Click 'subscribe to forum' on the forum you want to receive notifications for (general topics, event announcements, jobs and scholarships)
2. Go to your membership profile (Click 'Members login' in the navbar -> click your name -> go to 'Email subscriptions' -> 'Edit profile') then change the frequency at which you'd like to receive updates and save the changes.

I would like to note that there may be an issues with getting daily updates (myself and others are receiving several emails per day rather than 1). We are aware of this problem and are working on getting it fixed.

With regards to seeing the posts in your inbox, at the moment the emails you will receive will only display the topic title, not the actual content of the topic. You'll need to click through to the forum to read the post. I've got this on my list of features our forum members would like to see, so we'll see what we can do.

Edit: This video by Adrian Barnett also demonstrates how to set up subscriptions, from 1:29 relates to what you are asking.

John, thank you for the clearly laid out feedback. I'm collating as much feedback as I can with a view to creating an actionable plan, so your response helps greatly.

I would also like to highlight that there was a committee which investigated many alternatives to the mailing list (as we long knew it was going to be shut down), and this forum was decided to be the best option for many reasons, including:

• It's accessible by people from government institutions, many of the other services were blocked
• Allowing customisable notifications - hence the splitting of topics into general, jobs, and events. Users of the mailing list have complained previously about not wanting to receive job adverts or other topics they deemed irrelevant, so the current format of the forum allows for this
• No more unsubscribe emails (hurrah!)

The tl;dr is that this is the best (not perfect) substitute for the mailing list and it will only get better if we work together on improving it.

By the way, if people want to email me feedback directly rather than posting it publicly on the forum, you can send it to benharrap@gmail.com

Hey Ian,

I also experienced the same problem with the daily notifications coming in seemingly hourly, it seems to have been related to the pinned posts which we have since removed. Apologies for that, as with the uptake of any new platform there are going to be some teething issues.

I hope though that you do continue to persist with the new format of ANZSTAT as your (and many others) contributions have been very valuable to me personally, and likely most other people on the list. As I mentioned to John Maindonald in his thread, any feedback that you and others are able to provide in the early stages will help us improve the experience for everyone.

Personally, I hope that the discussion forum becomes as frequently used, if not more so, than the old mailing list, becoming a useful and more easily accessible resource. I imagine there were many useful email threads I missed out on that occurred before I subscribed to the mailing list.

Ben

Adrian Barnett wrote:Sorry Richard, the old list was not under our control, so we couldn't do anything like that.  

Have you asked them? They won't have deleted it.

R

Have you archived the old list? The notification email says everything is to be deleted.

R