Dave tests to see if the Youtube notification system is broken
There will be a Youtube poll set up that should pop up as a Card.
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Hi, Just A quick video here because a lot of people have been complaining recently not only on my channel, but on tons of others YouTuber's channels as well that they're not getting the E-mail notifications that they signed up for. Now, if you don't know,, you can sign up to be notified when I release a new video, you automatically get an E-mail, if you're wondering how people get "FIRST!, FIRST!" or whatever thing they put down within like seconds of me uploading a video, or first couple of minutes, that's how they do it,. sign up to email notifications,, go to their inbox,. if they happen to be watching their inbox, or their stupid smart watch or whatever, they get alerted that I've released a new video and Bam! They're in, first! If You wanted to know how to do that, it's easy! Go To your favourite channel, I'll go to EEVBlog.2 here, and not only that, can you make sure you subscribe, but look, this little bell icon, here, there it is, right up there.
And You gotta click on that bell icon, it says "Send me all notifications for this channel" and I can set various things ... I can, you know, be alerted when I make, you know, add a video to a playlist and stuff like that, but I find that annoying, I don't do that, I only set up alerts so that you will be alerted when I upload a new video, nothing else that I do on my channel will be alerted from. So That's how you get E-mail alerts. Now, There's a lot of people who have been complaining that they already signed up for this and they're not getting the E-mail notifications, and apparently, this is a YouTube wide problem, but I think YouTube are probably denying and all that usual B.S.
What I'm going to do is, somehere here, I'm gonna create, so, I don't know, it might pop up here. somewhere up the top will be a card, what's called a card, and it'll pop up with a poll and I Want ONLY people who are already subscribed to sign up for notifications with that little bell icon there. If you're already signed up, I Want you to let me know if you're getting E-mail notifications for new videos. Yes or no.
Please, nobody else start replying and corrupt the poll. So I only want to know that is it working for you, Now apparently, some people have reported that the fix is to go up here and unsubscribe, like this, to my channel and then re-subscribe to my channel, or anyone else's channel and then see how it resets the bell icon? Go in there and simply re-do that. Now, I won't be able to get that for the polls, for this video but, maybe, a follow on and see if you can keep me updated in the comments or whatever, or on the EEVBlog forum or somewhere, that, hey,, yeah, that fixed it. So, I Want to know, does that fix it? Resubscribing and then re-setting that bell icon.
So Go Do it,. there will be a card here somewhere, the card may not show up, I've heard they don't show up if you've got adblockers or something like that, or if you're watching on T.V. or, I dunno, some other aspects where the cards don't show up. So I Can't link to the poll down below, it's only for those who can access the cards. Sorry, but should be able to get enough data. Yes or no. Are You getting my E-mail alerts? It's worth a shot. Let's see what the results are.
Catch you next time.
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I've had entire an DAY without getting notifications for ANY subscriptions. Nothing helps that problem. Typically I get notifications after about 30 minutes to 4 hours with no rhyme or reason. I typically get in early on a video because I happen to be on YT at the time and see the video is posted in my subscriptions feed BEFORE the notification occurs.
heh, we have a lot of the same subscriptions
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Wow you subbed to the amazing Alyanokvic
You're giving too much importance to that notification glitch. I have subscribed to zero channels, I just watch them when I feel like it, and I forget those who became irrelevant to my state of mind.
I have been subscribed and clicked the bell ages ago and had never gotten an email notification. Your video prompted me to do some research. I eventually discovered that Youtube emails were going to my gmail account which I had only created because I had to have an account in order to use my Android phone. I use my own business email server with Outlook and never thought to setup Outlook to check the gmail account. There were thousands of notifications in my mailbox. I was unable to get POP3 access to work, but was successful with IMAP. So now I get your notifications in Outlook with my other email accounts. Perhaps others have this same situation. Love your channel and videos!
Welcome to Google where 95% of the employees work on cool new stuff and the other 5% could mostly care less if the existing stuff actually works right unless it's significantly hurting their revenue.
Hey Dave, I'm subscribed to.. ahem.. quite a few channels and I have e-mail notifications (the bell, which used to be a gear for a long time, so this whole "Look at me, I'm part of the notification squad!!!1!" silliness is nothing new) turned on for all of them. There was some sort of clog or something, because the regular trickle of notifications I normally get stopped for about 12 hours, and then I got a ton all at once. I've seen it happen before too.
Also, I occasionally come across channels I've been magically unsubscribed from, but today for the first time I noticed that the notifications were turned off for one of the channels.
And, the number of comments for this video is specified as only 7, but there are obviously LOTS more than that.
If I had to guess, I'd say YouTube has corruption in their database, or just crappy programming ..or both.
It works ok for me, very fast indeed. What I noticed is that when you disable notifications they keep coming for some days so maybe it takes the same time to update all the servers and start getting them after activation. Who knows.
I've turned off email notifications, but I have been auto-unsubscribed at least twice from your channel
Was notified by email the day after you released it.
I just had several days of YouTube email notifications show up all at once. ALMOST funny…
Can I just suggest using an RSS feed? For a techie audience such as yours Dave it might be the easiest solution. Just put the channel URL to any RSS reader and you'll get the feed.
I got a notification email and I do have all notifications enabled
I lost my bell. Thanks for the update!
Who can receive those cards? Do you have to be subscribed to the channel to see them, or is there some other privilege involved?
Just so you know Dave, I got not notification of vid, been a sub for months.. Great ch btw, MaNCHESTER, eNGLAND
The notifications for my subscribed channels always work but sometimes they come a couple minutes late (android phone) but not a huge deal.
I use Gmail and all notifications go to a junk folder and I don't get notified! no way to change it either. bit strange considering Gmail is google!
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Last,damn it.