eBird Alerts NONE since December 15th

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Susan Rosine

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Dec 19, 2020, 8:18:56 PM12/19/20
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How many other people are no longer getting alerts? The last ones I got were on the 15th. I went to the Facebook community for eBird, and someone said they unsubscribed, then resubscribed to get the alerts again. I tried that, and it didn't work. 
Susan Rosine
Brighton CO

Diana Beatty

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Dec 19, 2020, 8:27:21 PM12/19/20
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Susan,
I've been getting mine; but I did recently have an issue with gmail suddenly sending more items to my spam folder a few weeks ago; I had to go down into the spam and find the posts I was missing and train it to no longer recognize those as junk.  Just a thought since I see you also have gmail - perhaps your alerts have started going to your spam folder?

Diana Beatty
El Paso County

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Eric DeFonso

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Dec 19, 2020, 8:31:30 PM12/19/20
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Hi Susan,

About a week or two ago I stopped receiving Hotspot Needs alerts by email. Soon thereafter I found out that eBird no longer supports those alerts, which is unfortunate since I found those to be quite fun and useful and have several of them in my alerts "folder" on the website. But alas, I'll not be seeing those in email anymore.

There was also a time recently when I seemed not to be receiving County or State level Needs Alerts, but I can't confirm that since it's a slow month anyway and I don't think there were any birds passing through that would have triggered an alert. I can say though that lately I am still receiving County level Needs Alerts - I just got two this morning.

The upshot: if you have hotspot alerts, those will no longer be coming through. I can attest that larger-scale Needs Alerts are still showing up. I can't speak to Rare Bird Alerts though, since I'm not subscribed to any of those.

Eric

p.s. I have gmail, but I never seem to get eBird alerts sent to my Spam folders. Your mileage may differ though. (On rare occasions my CoBirds messages do show up there.)

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Eric DeFonso
near Lyons, Boulder County, CO


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mblackford

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Dec 19, 2020, 8:42:52 PM12/19/20
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Check your junk or spam folders.  My alerts started going to the spam folder.

Maureen Blackford

Susan Rosine

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Dec 19, 2020, 9:10:08 PM12/19/20
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They are not in my spam folder.

Susan Rosine

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Dec 19, 2020, 9:12:11 PM12/19/20
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No hotspot alerts. Just "rare" and "needs" for counties and state.
Susan
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