PPRuNe email notification

[HeliboyDreamer]

I have noticed that all my email notification are coming from "PPRuNe Forums <[email protected]>" and looking at my email box I have receive the first email from this address on the 27/05/2022.

Those email are coming mainly from my subscribed threads.

With all malicious behaviours out there internet I was wondering if PPRuNe has been attacked/breached or if this is intended at all?

It looks definitely weird, I would expect email notification from PPRuNe to come from domain @pprune.org (it was coming from [email protected] up to 13/05/2022)

Can anyone clarify this?

[Senior Pilot]

[email protected] is the Webmaster’s email address, hence the use in notifications 👍

[HeliboyDreamer]

Thanks for confirming. It is a bit odd though...

[Asturias56]

Internet Brands owns the site. They make money by selling all those lovely ads (and probably your details). The Mods are unpaid volunteers who work from their offices. The central control over the website is embedded in Internet Brands with one or two of their people looking after PPrune as well as a load of other websites.

https://www.internetbrands.com/about-us/

MH Sub I, LLC, doing business as Internet Brands, is a digital media, marketing services, and software (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media) company based in El Segundo, California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Segundo,_California), United States, that operates online media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_media), community (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_community), e-commerce (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-commerce), and SaaS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaaS) businesses in vertical markets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_markets).

They're massive. Generally the service seems good but occasionally they impose something new (and disliked by PPruners) across all their platforms (eg the "Trending" page a year or so back)

[Saab Dastard]

The Mods are unpaid volunteers who work from their offices
Unpaid? Check
Volunteers? Check
Offices? No, homes.

[IBJoel]

Yep! We oversee over a dozen sites in Travel & Leisure alone. A single email address helps us keep everything organized and another community manager can easily jump in if someone has to take off for whatever reason

[Asturias56]

Unpaid? Check
Volunteers? Check
Offices? No, homes.

Jeez - I thought people only looked at PPrune when they're being paid by their employer - at home they have better things to do......................

[Saab Dastard]

Yes, but mods and admins HAVE to look at what's going on, wherever we may be!

[Asturias56]

That's my excuse for looking at all sorts of interesting webpages.................... :p

[barry lloyd]

I logged in yesterday as normal, and noticed that all the previous PMs had disappeared. This has never happened before. Whilst I recognise the need to save bandwidth and freely confess that some of those PMs were several years old, would it not have been more circumspect to have informed me that these PMs were about to be removed? In them were contained details that were important to me, and whilst I recognise that the details could (and should) have been copied and pasted to permanent files, the pace of life today is such that we are all guilty of forgetting to do even important things.
Surely a polite note explaining what is about to happen and giving me say, seven days to take what I wanted from the file is not too much to ask.

[sealo0]

My PM,s have disappeared as well, not to bothered however just information.

[Senior Pilot]

I am guessing that you are referring to the ‘Your Notifications’ tab at the top of the page, which appears to have lost its function? PMs are still available via the drop down menu ‘Quick Links/Miscellaneous/Private Messages’.

[Alsacienne]

Although in no way numerous, I too have lost my 'Notifications'. Just sayin' .............

[IBJoel]

Have you cleared cache/cookies for the site? Are you on mobile or desktop device and are you on mobile/desktop skin? What browser? Can you attach a screenshot of what you mean?

[Alsacienne]

I cleared my cache and my cookies. No change. Well, in the great scheme of things I guess this is not a game changer! Thanks for your advice!

[IBJoel]

I cleared my cache and my cookies. No change. Well, in the great scheme of things I guess this is not a game changer! Thanks for your advice!
Please post a screenshot of the error

[barry lloyd]

I am guessing that you are referring to the ‘Your Notifications’ tab at the top of the page, which appears to have lost its function? PMs are still available via the drop down menu ‘Quick Links/Miscellaneous/Private Messages’.

Thanks for that. In all my years on this forum, I never had cause to use that previously. I see that everything is still there.

[IBJoel]

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/490x406/screenshot_2024_06_04_140832_eb2d8ea06a9f460823b62c68355c8c4 2206d6ba0.png

Red bell will always drop down and show you your notifications

Green arrow will only drop down when you have new notifications

[Asturias56]

thanks - i suspect you'll get a lot of calls....................

[Bergerie1]

For the last week or so, my Notifications Box (top right of PPRuNe page) shows a zero in bold 0 and I am unable to access the box. Do our Mods have any idea of how to fix this problem? All help will be much appreciated! Many thanks.

[ShyTorque]

It appears that the way the site works has been changed. To see your private messages, click on your username, top right of the page. A menu will drop down and the messages line will be on it.

My understanding is that the notifications will only indicate a new message, rather than show the numbers of messages as before.