In addition to the great news about Facebook Connect, I wanted to detail some new enhancements to Propeller Notifications. We have been making small improvements to the system for some weeks now, and as of today, they have been deployed throughout the Propeller community.

Notifications fall into the following categories:

Member Activities: Related to your own activities on Propeller, these notifications contain your submissions, props, comments, replies and props on your submissions
Group Activities: Related to activities within groups you are a member of, this notification tells you about stories submitted to any of your groups
Private Messages: Tells you about any new messages you have received on Propeller
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News about Propeller: Occasional updates about the Propeller web site

In your Propeller settings area, there is a "Manage Notifications" page, available here. On it, you can manage your preferences for each type of notification message, choosing to be notified (or not), the method (via email or Propeller's messaging system) and the frequency (immediate, daily, weekly). It looks like this:


You can also turn off all notifications at once by clicking the "Disable All" button (which requires one extra confirmation). You may start seeing email notifications from us (from the address noreply@propeller.com) almost immediately, depending on the level of activity within your Propeller network. We have tried to guess at the ideal settings, but encourage you to go to your Manage Notifications page and tune the settings to your liking.

If these notifications alert you to stories and conversations you might have otherwise missed, then they have done their job. I hope they have, and will be watching my inbox eagerly. If they haven't, let us know how we can do better.

Happy Propelling,
Tom (member tdrapeau)