All this fuss over comment emails has made me happier than ever that I don't ever use them.

[conuly]

I mean, let's face it: Comment emails never work properly. If they're not being blocked by one email provider or another, then they're simply not being sent out all right, and vice versa. And sometimes users don't check the box, and then they get upset. I mean....

Does that make the recent debacle a good thing? No. Does that mean you shouldn't be upset it happened? Not at all. Does that mean that I haven't missed a single comment, not even replies to me in communities, not even replies to me in communities where the person didn't know how to reply to a single comment and so it wouldn't've shown up in my email anyway? HELL YEAH.

Because I check all my comments via the recent comments page, and communities I want to keep track of that way to.

Now, if only there were a page to automatically check comments to our posts in communities that we hadn't commented on, I'd be one very happy Connie.

Not to mock your pain, all of you, I'm just happy for me.

Comments

[conuly]

Completely different issue which I'm not discussing at all. I'm just pointing out how glad I am that I have a system that isn't broken.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

I could take that "I'm not" in two different ways. It could mean you did not discuss it in your post (which I know, but I see the two as related) or that you do not wish to discuss it at all.

As far as using the recent comments page instead of comment emails goes, that works for me for monitoring comments to my entries. But I don't have the time to open up all the places I've had comments to see if someone commented back to me. I can see how some people would, I just don't. When it first broke this time around, I was getting no comment emails. Now I'm getting about 50% of emails for comments in my journal. And I get about one or two a day for comments to my comments elsewhere. I have no way of knowing how many I'm missing, since I don't have the time to check back on all the posts.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

I've had comments to=I've made comments to.

[conuly]

Mostly the first, a little bit the second - it's not affecting me, I'm upset that it's affecting you, I can't do anything about it, so.

I can see how some people would, I just don't.

*waves hand*

Honestly, I can't abide checking my email all the time, which is what I'd have to do the other way.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

I guess that part is easy for me because my email is always open and automatically refreshes itself. I never check it; it does it for me. And since my browser will save pages when I close it, it's even right there when I get back on the internet.

I'm horrible at checking my yahoo mail, because it is not always open and automatically refreshing, so I do see your point about the emails. I just have a different system for that.

[conuly]

I couldn't have an automatically updating email. There's too much stress involved over those. So, yeah. Damned if you do, and also when you don't.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Why not just have a tiny client (like a Firefox or IM extension) open for auto-checking mail? (Mine auto-checks in the background every few minutes one way or another... I'm not even generally aware of it until I actually get something.)

FWIW, only problem I've had with comment emails is when LJ was having issues, as I have my stuff (spam-blocking at the ISP plus in my client) all set properly to let LJ things through.

Like the others, I don't have anywhere near the time needed to recheck posts/conversations in communities, so email is pretty much the only option for me. I am guessing some of the difference might be that you seem to do most of your comment conversations (replies, replies to replies, etc.) in your own LJ plus perhaps a few select comms, while I (perhaps others) do commenting-convos in other people's LJs where the Recent Comments feature is useless?

[conuly]

I don't like things that tell me when I have something. That's why I don't use AIM much - it's so stressful, having those windows there saying "SOMEBODY WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!"

If I check email and comments myself, I can put it off until I want to deal with it.

I do comment in other people's journals, but I don't tend to have long conversations there. I'm usually only having two or three conversations at a time - five is the limit. So I'm really only checking two or three (or five) entries at a time, plus any comments made in my journal. So it's not a burden.