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It's pretty confusing, it looks like a service I might use so I went to the home page and set up an alert for "fizzbuzz", I then got a prompt asking my to regis

by ig1 18y ago

It's pretty confusing, it looks like a service I might use so I went to the home page and set up an alert for "fizzbuzz", I then got a prompt asking my to register (do I have to register for the alert to work ? is it optional ?). After registering I ended up at a page which confused the hell out of me. "we haven't found any of your comments yet" left me thinking - have they not found any comments that match my search term or does it mean something else. The options given were: # Claim Comments – help us find your comments # Edit Account – review your account details # Edit Profile – so people can find you # Search – for people to follow The "Search" option kinda sounds like what I want to do, but the "for people to follow" makes me think it isn't. It's completely unclear what I need to do in order to track some keywords.

konsl 18y ago
Sorry -- Alerts require you to be a registered user so we can deliver them to a verified e-mail address. If you don't want to sign-up, you can perform searches and subscribe to results via RSS. We thought it would be cool if we carried an alert through the sign-up process and added it afterwards. I guess we didn't realize how confusing it would be when the registration was complete. We'll be making this a lot more clear; thanks for the feedback. The page you're viewing (the Dashboard) allows you to: - View comments by people you're following (/home) - View alerts you've subscribed to (/home/alerts) - View comments shared by people you're following (/home/shared) We're going to revisit that welcome msg; for now, you should visit http://www.backtype.com/home/alerts http://www.backtype.com/home/alerts to find your alert and subscribe to more. Alternatively, you can perform searches on http://www.backtype.com/comments http://www.backtype.com/comments and subscribe to them from the results page. Thanks again.

by ig1 18y ago

konsl 18y ago

Sorry -- Alerts require you to be a registered user so we can deliver them to a verified e-mail address. If you don't want to sign-up, you can perform searches and subscribe to results via RSS. We thought it would be cool if we carried an alert through the sign-up process and added it afterwards. I guess we didn't realize how confusing it would be when the registration was complete. We'll be making this a lot more clear; thanks for the feedback. The page you're viewing (the Dashboard) allows you to: - View comments by people you're following (/home) - View alerts you've subscribed to (/home/alerts) - View comments shared by people you're following (/home/shared) We're going to revisit that welcome msg; for now, you should visit http://www.backtype.com/home/alerts http://www.backtype.com/home/alerts to find your alert and subscribe to more. Alternatively, you can perform searches on http://www.backtype.com/comments http://www.backtype.com/comments and subscribe to them from the results page. Thanks again.