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Ask HN: Has Facebook turned off email notifications?
I am not a big Facebook user -- I rely on their email notifications feature so that I'm aware when someone sends me a message or event invitation.
Apparently sometime in the last few weeks, I stopped receiving email notifications of any kind.
(I checked the settings page for email notification; it was very cryptic and basically useless.)
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any way to reenable it?
- maneesh 10y agoI think so
- jondwillis 10y agoI have been logged out of Facebook for a few weeks, and started receiving emails (trying to entice me to come back) that I hadn't previously. The latest one was April 15, 3:12 PM PST.
- Rondom 10y agoThe last email notification I got was yesterday. Apart from that I got a reminder about friends' birthdays today. I notice that messages notifications for private message sent to me not longer include the content of the message. Instead I get the following "You'll need to use Messenger to see and respond to *'s message. With Messenger, you can text and make voice and video calls for free."
- tyldum 10y agoThe email alerts have never worked reliably for me. For messages they arrive a week later, if at all. And I regularly get emails telling me I have 50+ notifications, but there is actually just a few. It's been totally unreliable and random since I joined many years ago.
- newsjunkie247 10y agoI have with some isolated exceptions stopped receiving email notifications since March 20. I have been reporting it multiple times a day every day since then and no significant improvement. I know it may sound useless, but I would urge anyone bothered by this to keep submitting via the report a problem feature on Facebook to try and get if fixed. In my case I am missing emails related to my job.
- kurtextrem 9y agoSame issue here, worked months before but last few days really random.