A think a big problem was that 2020 was around the time that FFN's issues with its email server went from 'it occasionally didn't work' to 'it occasionally did', which meant that when someone reviewed a fic or sent a PM or posted in a discussion forum, it was pure luck if anyone that should've been notified actually was. The result was that reviewers felt their reviews weren't appreciated (even aside from the whole "What do you mean, my story isn't 11/10 you hater?" thing that's always put people off) and writers didn't know they were getting any unless they happened to check the slow way.
They did fix that problem, eventually, but they also turned everyone's alerts notifications off in the process, which meant people still had to log in to push the 'I would like to receive email notifications' tag. If someone didn't know they needed to do that…
I didn't know about all of that, but apparently that's still a problem on the app. I have to have app and emil notifs on at all times because sometimes I get an email for an app notification that never popped up.
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