Message Notification

I don't know if this is related to the previously noted issue of message not being received, but there seems to be a problem with message notification also. The messages were received, I just didn't get notification they were there.

I logged on and browsed recent forum topics for a while, then went to refer back to an old message - and found I had a bunch of unopened messages that I wasn't aware of.

I later found by accident that when I went to my author page, it triggered just one of the new messages to pop up. Clicking on 'home' triggered another one. By going back and forth between the author page and home, and forums, I was able to get one message at a time to pop up. (Maybe other activities would have triggered them also. I didn't try everything.)

I just wanted to let everyone know you might need to check your messages instead of depending on a notification to know when you have one. (And I miss the sexy "Excuse me... you've got messages" audio notification.)

This is how it's meant to work. Basically, whenever you click on an option from the menu the site checks for waiting messages and if there are several waiting it will present the first one of them as a popup. Clicking forum posts or threads, however, won't check for waiting messages as the forum is actually not coded by me as part of the LSF software, I merely modified and integrated it with the rest of the site.


Are you sure you haven't accidentally disabled it?

I didn't know it even existed! Where is it to be found, please?

If you click MyLSF followed by My Messages from the main menu you should then see the following items at the top of the page:

Select User drop-down box
All button
Sent button
Recd button
Archived button
Message count
Loudspeaker icon
Question mark icon (provides Help)

If you hover over the loudspeaker icon it should tell you whether audible message receipt is on. If it isn't on, clicking the icon will switch it on. Currently, this features makes use of Adobe Flash so it won't work on devices that don't support Flash.