New Email Notification System Installed on The Traveler

In what no doubt will be great news to many of our regular readers, we've integrated a new email notification system in the Traveler. With this upgrade, you can now wield better control over emails notifying you of new content.

If you have created an account in the Traveler, when you log in you can check the appropriate boxes to be notified immediately, hourly, twice a day, daily, or on a weekly basis when new content is posted. Or, you can choose not to receive any notifications.

You can even set it up to be notified of a particular type of story -- features, news, photos -- or even specific authors, or even a specific story, such as updates to the Katmai National Park search effort.

The instructions are pretty self-explanatory on your personal account page. (A link to that page should appear in the Visitor Center box after you log in.) For following a particular thread, such as the comments tagged onto the post about Joe Miller's desire to see all national parks in Alaska turned over to the state of Alaska, click on the Thread link, and in the Node box start typing "Joe Miller". That will cause a box to drop down with our stories on Joe Miller. Then simply click on the particular story you want to follow. It's as easy as that.

Better yet, if you read a story and want to follow comments tagged onto it, at the bottom of the story you can click on the Subscribe to this post link.

As always, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to shout.