Hacker News Facebook Group

Re:Hacker News Facebook Group by WesleyJohnson on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @03:42PM (#1765538)

Just a couple of quick tips and things to point out after spending a few minutes chatting with everyone in the group.

At this time you either can't (or it's not apparent how to) opt out of chat for a given group. You have to sign out of chat all-together.

You can opt out of email notifcations by clicking the "Edit Notifcations" on the top right of the Group window.

If you comment on a post, you're automatically subscribed to that post and begin recieving notifcations when others comment. You can also opt out of these on a per-post basis by clicking the "unsubscribe" link under the title of each post.

Hope that helps alleviate some of the noise so the group stays useful to everyone.

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Re:Hacker News Facebook Group by zacharycohn on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @05:02PM (#1765837)

"You can also opt out of these on a per-post basis by clicking the "unsubscribe" link under the title of each post."

THANK YOU.

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Re:Hacker News Facebook Group by whereareyou on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @09:51PM (#1766559)

Here's to hoping they will implement that outside of groups too...great feature.

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Re:Hacker News Facebook Group by darinpantley on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @05:17PM (#1765889)

If you do not turn off the notifications, your inbox will look like mine: http://i.imgur.com/RKQ9y.png

I was away from my computer for the past couple hours and came back to 154+ emails. Time to "Edit Notifications"...

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Re:Hacker News Facebook Group by ericabiz on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @05:36PM (#1765954)

YES! Holy farking email spam! I just got back from a lunch meetup. Someone else had added me and I had hundreds of emails.

In a related note, Facebook needs to let you edit notifications via the mobile interface. I looked, and couldn't figure it out. I actually ended up pulling out my Mifi at the end of the meetup and logging on to Facebook with my laptop just so I could opt out. Wow.

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Re:Hacker News Facebook Group by paulbaumgart on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @05:37PM (#1765957)

Yeah, I was really happy I had "Skip Inbox" enabled for my Facebook alerts filter.

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Re:Hacker News Facebook Group by brown9-2 on Thursday October 07, 2010 @10:07AM (#1767850)

Is there something else I need to do to stop getting email notifications other than unchecking "Email notifications to: my@email" and clicking Save?

I continue to get several emails about new replies to posts I've commented on.

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