Okay another question about status updates :
I have sent a few and a few of the people I follow commented on them . I am wondering how many people see them.... do they show up in everyone's inboxes ? Do they show up only in the Ex'ers one is following ? Are they only found in inboxes ? Okay that is a bunch of questions !!!
I am thinking maybe it works like our old message boards when someone would send a greeting out to all members ( I never did figure out how to do that .)
Depends how many people look at it while it appears on the home page of the site. Depends if you've mentioned someone.
Only the people who follow you who have inbox checked in following for you. See below. I'm following Sootie but not in my inbox so I wouldn't receive an inbox notification for her status updates.
They show up other places as I mentioned to Sootie here: https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/thread/6887-status-updates#comment-79723 . But yes people that are following you will see it other places people who are not following you will not.
No. As above, they will need to check box for inboxes if they want to receive your notifications in their inboxes. They do choose in their preferences if they receive an email notification. And once they interact it with your content they'll receive inbox notifications according to the frequency they've set unless they stop following your status update or "hide new activity" in the inbox.
Yes with @Mentioning people it kinda works like that. You're limited to 420 characters so conceivably you could fill a whole status update with just usernames of 420 characters and not have any characters left to type a greeting.
Hope my answers bring some clarity.
Mark
EX Community Manager