Clear communication with members of sections/chapters

After checking information and threads on other emails, I have one big concern. Quoting what @Wayne_Richter mentioned in the post “New platform for communication” in the Statistical Ecology Section:

Does this mean that I will no longer be getting email messages from the section (or the rest of ESA, for that matter), and that I will have to log in and poke around (the rather baroque) application to see if anything of interest has come in since the last time I looked? Knowing the way I work, this seems unlikely to happen.

Many members relied on communication with their respective section/chapters directly by receiving emails through the old system that made it easier to receive news directly to emails. Having a platform will deter engagement and I imagine will be a barrier for many people not use to big changes on digital platforms.

If you see/know a simple way to streamline communication in our sections/chapters without the need of big/new discussion forums, would be very helpful.

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Hey Josue, replying here and I hope this covers your email as well – people who are members of the respective groups should be receiving, in their regular email inbox, the messages posted to those groups. Some users may need to update their account preferences (the little drop-down when you click on your initial at top right, Preferences->Emails).

Messages will default to the address associated with a user’s ESA account. @Thet_K_Oo is our IT director and can fill in any details I missed.

I went to Preferences, but it is not obvious which email preference needs to be updated to ensure that I receive section messages. I did at least find that I could uncheck the Activity Summary box; I presume that it being checked on by default explains the irrelevant email message I got yesterday that highlighted 3 unread notifications.

To elaborate a bit, and I am no doubt embarrassing myself before the digital natives for whom this interface is second-nature, but I have never used a “platform” like this and find it incoherent. I cannot make sense of the options under Preferences → Tracking, nor understand what tracking is supposed to do or the difference between tags and categories. I’m sure I could spend enough time with the interface to make sense of it, but I don’t see a use case that would justify the time. Have you considered a user guide?

Wayne