Update: I think that this doesnātwork, at least for me and in cases where I didnāt start the comment thread. (Unless Iām doing something wrong.)
My specific observations:
I replied to a comment here. I was notified when Michelle Hutchinson replied. But I wasnāt notified of the various replies to her replies.
When I click on the three dots to the right of my comment, one of the options is āUnsubscribe to comment repliesā. So I think that means that the current state is that I am subscribed to comment replies to that comment of mine.
In my user settings, āAuto-subscribe to replies to my commentsā is ticked.
In my user settings, āReplies to comments Iām subscribed toā shows the current settings as āNotify me on-siteā and āImmediatelyā.
(Is there something else I should do? Also let me know if screenshots would be useful.)
Iāve checked with LWās tech staff, and it looks like what youāve seen is the behavior theyād expectāitās apparently difficult to track longer comment chains in this way with the current tech setup. Iām sorry to have given you an incorrect theory.
Update: I think that this doesnāt work, at least for me and in cases where I didnāt start the comment thread. (Unless Iām doing something wrong.)
My specific observations:
I replied to a comment here. I was notified when Michelle Hutchinson replied. But I wasnāt notified of the various replies to her replies.
When I click on the three dots to the right of my comment, one of the options is āUnsubscribe to comment repliesā. So I think that means that the current state is that I am subscribed to comment replies to that comment of mine.
In my user settings, āAuto-subscribe to replies to my commentsā is ticked.
In my user settings, āReplies to comments Iām subscribed toā shows the current settings as āNotify me on-siteā and āImmediatelyā.
(Is there something else I should do? Also let me know if screenshots would be useful.)
Iāve checked with LWās tech staff, and it looks like what youāve seen is the behavior theyād expectāitās apparently difficult to track longer comment chains in this way with the current tech setup. Iām sorry to have given you an incorrect theory.
Thatās a reasonable test, and I wouldnāt have expected that result. Iāll follow up with our tech folks and let you know what I find out.