Opt out for Discovery Messages on website

LegacyUser

geneakit said: Please enable the same opt outs for Messages on the website as you do for Emails in the settings for Notifications.
It is extremely annoying to be on the website and see there is a message and think it may be a response to a sent message only to find it's a birthday reminder or some other so called Discovery. FamilySearch is not my main tree and I usually already know the "discovery".

LegacyUser

Brett said: geneakit

Firstly, "Welcome" to this "FamilySearch" ( "GetStaisfaction" ) 'Feedback' Forum.

Secondly, "Official 'FamilySearch' Representatives", do monitor; and, sometimes, participate in, this Forum.

Thirdly, I am just another User/Patron, just like yourself (and, happen to be a Member of the Church).

Many Users/Patrons who regularly participate in this Forum who have a great deal of knowledge and experience with "FamilySearch", like to assist/help other Users/Patrons like yourself.

Finally, you are not alone.

FYI

Here are just a few of the more recent post on the matter ...

3 Discovery messages at once is too much --- and I have My Ancestors messages turned off! (please make sure opt-out works.) ... [ Over 1 Month ago ]
https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

Turn Off Message Reminder from Discovery ... [ 29 Days ago ]
https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

Discovery Messages opt out option
https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

Brett

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LegacyUser

Juli said: Amen.
I have come to downright _hate_ the so-called Discovery messages. Not just dislike, but actively _hate_.
Can they PLEASE JUST GO AWAY FOREVER AND EVER?

LegacyUser

Cindy Hecker said: I just heard in a Temple and Family History consultant meeting yesterday how helpful those discovery emails are and made someone want to learn and research more. So people do feel differently than you. I believe you can stop email notification for them but if you are referring to the number you see by messages and then going to find it is only a discovery I would just ignore and move on. It is not hurting you and it might help someone else.

LegacyUser

Juli said: It _is_ hurting me: it's using my valuable time to check notifications about utterly useless junk.

Yes, utterly useless and total junk. In nearly eight years of using FS, I have never -- even once! -- been notified of anything useful in those ad campaigns. Everything has been either irrelevant/wrong or already known/attached.

Every. Single. Thing.

LegacyUser

Juli said: If other people sometimes find the spam to be of interest, that's fine: they could continue to be pestered with it, with my good wishes. I just wish that _I_ could opt out completely: no emails _and_ no notifications in Messages.

LegacyUser

geneakit said: Cindy I'm fine with other people getting them.
I just resent the time wasted checking and deleting unwanted messages.
Why is it so awful to want to opt out as you can opt out of email messages?

LegacyUser

Paul said: Surely someone has an answer to this question? I have never received any Discovery messages, but have no idea what I did to opt-out. The only messages I receive relate to weekly changes to individuals on my watch list, updates / additions to the FamilySearch collections and those about other FS events and developments. I assume there must be a way of specifically removing Discovery messages from our notifications list and am very surprised nobody seems able to help here.

LegacyUser

Paul said: Sorry Brett, Tom, et al - I now see you have posted your responses in other threads. However, I still don't see how Juli gets them and I don't - unless I opted-out (unknowingly) before this option became of no practical use.