I only get notifications when somone DMs me, but when I make a post and people upvote/comment on it, I get no notification whatsoever.

My settings are default and I haven’t changed much, so it’s as it would have been when I first created an account, hence I don’t believe I disabled anything either.

If it’s not a me issue, then @ernest please do consider making this an important issue to be addressed, and the reason I say that is because it makes Kbin look dead to me, because when I don’t get notified, people would have still conversed with me through my threads on the comments, and also when I don’t get notified about upvotes apart from comments, I don’t even know my post got that much traction unless I manually check it every time.

That being said I know the developer is very busy with Kbin, it’s certainly a feat to create an all-in-one Lemmy and Mastodon alternative with a codebase built from scratch with activitypub compatibility.

So I do understand Kbin is in early development phase and this may already be planned (if yes, great), but even if it is or not, do make this a priority as without proper notifications, whenever I check back Kbin it looks too quiet (especially when it comes to the content I posted).

Edit: Okay sorry for the confusion. Upvotes do get notifications, even on Reddit but not for every upvote, for example if a post gets upvotes to 10, 50, 100, Reddit notifies you. That is what I mean’t, not every upvote.

Thank you!

  • HipPriest@kbin.social
    4·
    3 years ago

    Why on earth would you want alerting every time your post was upvoted? Trust me you don’t want that many notifications in your life!

    As the previous commenter said, everything else should be available in your settings :)

    • TheArstaInventor@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Okay sorry for the confusion. Upvotes do get notifications, even on Reddit but not for every upvote, for example if a post gets upvotes to 10, 50, 100, Reddit notifies you. That is what I mean’t, not every upvote.

      • RheingoldRiver@kbin.social
        2·
        3 years ago

        for example if a post gets upvotes to 10, 50, 100, Reddit notifies you

        While it may feel nice, in reality this is a really awful gamification tactic that makes a website actively worse because it encourages users to post clickbait content to garner upvotes. I doubt kbin will ever have anything like it, though maybe you could find some third-party app that does this eventually.

  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
    3·
    3 years ago

    There’s a setting for notifications for any reply to your comments. You can also get a notification for any post in any subscribed magazine.

    Notifications for upvotes is definitely not a normal feature and makes no sense.

    • TheArstaInventor@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Okay sorry for the confusion. Upvotes do get notifications, even on Reddit but not for every upvote, for example if a post gets upvotes to 10, 50, 100, Reddit notifies you. That is what I mean’t, not every upvote.

      And regarding settings, while I will check and change it, why is this not turned on by default? Notifications for comments are fundemental isn’t it?

      • HipPriest@kbin.social
        2·
        3 years ago

        About that all I can say is that they were on default for me and it is odd that that they’re not on default for your - but if they’re not currently on for you the best thing to do is to double check your settings.