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Kansas Highwall
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Feb 2nd, 2026 at 11:50pm
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We need this site to be more accommodating!
Other firearms sites have notifications and let us know when responses pretain to us. This is a good place for us single shot enthusiasts but help us communitcate within this great community!
  
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Reply #1 - yesterday at 4:46am
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I could definitely agree with that. I’m young and it’s confusing to me sometimes. An email when we get a private message would be the ticket.
  
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Reply #2 - yesterday at 11:33am
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Kansas Highwall wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 11:50pm:
We need this site to be more accommodating!
Other firearms sites have notifications and let us know when responses pretain to us. This is a good place for us single shot enthusiasts but help us communitcate within this great community! 


Click on the bar just above your post that says “add topic notification”.  It will then let you know when you open the forum if there has been activity on that post.
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Reply #3 - yesterday at 11:35am
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Coleat4440 wrote yesterday at 4:46am:
I could definitely agree with that. I’m young and it’s confusing to me sometimes. An email when we get a private message would be the ticket.


I get emails for every PM I get.  I’m not sure why, so you should contact the admin folks and ask how to set it up.   
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Reply #4 - yesterday at 11:43am
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Also, when you first open the Board Index page, the radio buttons that are highlighted contain post you have not read.
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Reply #5 - yesterday at 12:38pm
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Not to mention that when you first click on the site on the line right under the greeting "Good Morning" or what ever, it tells you how many new messages you have.
  
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Reply #6 - Today at 12:34pm
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I get emails all the time telling me I have messages and a link to click on to view them.
And since new posts are highlighted each time someone else posts to a thread, I don't need anything more. If it's not broken, then don't fix it. I like the way it works personally.
  
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Reply #7 - Today at 12:42pm
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I second Marlinguy’s option. I like this forum’s look and feel better than most others I visit.
  
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Reply #8 - Today at 12:54pm
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Go to your user control panel, profile page, select options, setup your notifications to include email alerts.
  
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Reply #9 - Today at 1:00pm
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Maybe Alan will chime in also.  We talked a little about this at the last shoot attended.  This forum is kept simple, there's no pop-ups, there's no scrolling ads across the header, the moderators have a few things in place to prevent scammers and so far for me, they keep it clean and simple.

Ten posts enable you to post things for sale, there's no charge for that, if the items are related to this discipline, there's usually an interest and the items move quickly, a lot less hassle than ebay, facebook or Craigslist.
 
The email notifications of new PM's wasn't working but that just came back around and I'm getting notices just fine now.  As mentioned, opening the site page does tell you what posts are new and it also gives you an idea of who's on line.   

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Reply #10 - Today at 1:35pm
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I personally find those gun forums that keep sending me notices of any new replies at any thread I look at. It look at lots of things that turn out to be something I wont return to, so getting notices means I need to open the notice, and delete it. I'd rather not get notices myself. Just less effort for me to delete.
  
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Reply #11 - Today at 2:02pm
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IMHO there isn't enough activity on here to need additional alerts.
The upgrades would take $$$. Where would that come from? There is the donate button and becoming an ASSRA member, I guess? 
Probably would need to find a new hosting service for forum.
A lot goes into it....who gonna doit?
  
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Reply #12 - Today at 4:14pm
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I may be wrong but I believe the original person (Kansas Highwall) that started this thread & the comments from the 1st one to respond (Coleat4440) was done when the forum very recently had a problem not automatically sending out emails to PM’s and notification of replies to threads.  Or, as Dellet suggested, selecting notifications to include email alerts in setup was not done.

After BobW & I complained to the powers-to-be, the forum problem was quickly corrected.  Subsequently I received a bunch of email from the forum from threads & PM’s.

I'd like to hear from Kansas Highwall & Coleat4440 if they still have a concern after reading this thread.

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