Stopped receiving email updates

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Step 1: I stopped receiving daily email updates 2 days ago without changing any configurations, for the first time in years. The email address it comes from is inaturalist.org.

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Noting that another user contacted me a couple of weeks ago to say they had the same issue

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Interesting, do you know if they are getting them from a node or iNat.org? Don’t know if it makes a difference but might.

In the past week, I see update emails generated for your account’s email address for February 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 - does that match up with the daily updates emails you’ve received? Someone else has said they’ve missed some as well, so we’re taking a look.

Yes, I did not receive updates for the 9, 10, 11 and 12. On the 12th I went in and fiddled around with the settings, to “save” them again and hopefully reset them this way. It worked. I started receiving the updates on the 13 again.

Note that all the email notification options were ticked before, and the only things I changed were the ones that now appear without a tick on the screenshot.

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Woops I missed this comment, Australia node

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I take that back. It is happening again, the updates stopped coming again. :face_with_diagonal_mouth:
I received up until yesteday, nothing today. (They always arrive first thing in the AM).

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I see an email for today (the 17th) but not the 16th.


Nothing for 2023-02-17

Sorry about that, I was going by subject date, not sent date. I asked one of our devs to take a look but I don’t know when they’lll be able to do so.

Ok, we figured out the problem and will release a fix on Monday. We usually don’t release updates on Fridays in case the updates cause problems over the weekend.

https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/pull/3671

We released this fix today, it was related to one’s observations being faved by others. @magazhu I faved one of your observations today, let me know if you receive an update email tomorrow.