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• Thursday Tip: Message Notifications
  Did you know that you can receive an email notification when you get a comment on a project, a friend notification, or a regular Ravelry message? You can find this option under the “email settings” tab at the top of your message box page.
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  … . Forwarding Ravelry PMs to Your Regular Email You can elect to have your Ravelry PMs forwarded to an email address. It’s not possible to reply via email, but each message will include a link that takes you back to your Ravelry message box. To turn on this feature, make sure your Ravelry profile has your current email address listed. Then go to your message box and click on the tab labeled “email &blocking”. This page will allow you to turn forwarding on or off and configure the types of …
• Thursday Tip: Get the Lingo!
  … a profile picture here to Ravelry and would like to, we’ve got a Tips post that will help you out. Ravmail: Private messages (you can find these in the messages section of your Ravelry Notebook) are often called Ravmail. Earburn: If another Raveler uses our magic links with your username in the forums, you get a message with the subject “are your ears burning?” These messages are referred to as “earburns.” The List: The List is where we track our bug reports and feature requests. You can find …
• Thursday Tip: Friendly Email Reminder
  … email address here under “primary email address”. You can also choose if you want to send email notifications to this address when you receive messages on Ravelry. When you click the dropdown under “Should we send email notifications when you receive Ravelry messages?”, you will see these options. “No” means you will not receive email notifications of messages, “Yes – send to my primary email” will send notifications to the email you list in this window and “Yes – send to a different address …
• Thursday Tip: New Mobile Site Features for Pattern Search & Yarn Shops
  … to be connected to your shop’s directory listing on Ravelry (whether or not it is listed yet), or if your shop is not yet activated for In-Store Pattern Sales and you’d like to be, LYS Quick Start Guide, which has the information you need on how to get set up. Bonus Tip! Our very first Thursday Tip was about email notifications for your Ravelry messages. We have an update to that tip: if you are getting your Ravelry messages delivered to your email, you can now reply directly to that Ravelry …
• Thursday Tip: Send a Valentine!
  … ! To send a Valentine, just go to the Ravelry profile of the person to whom you want to send it, and click on the special send Valentine link you’ll see just under the regular send message link. (If the Raveler has Ravelry messages disabled, you won’t see either of these options.) Once you click on the send Valentine link you’ll get to choose from among several cute vintage Valentines. Type in your own note if you want, and send your friend some love! The Valentines will be available from …
• Thursday Tip: Improved Moderator Reports
  … your fellow moderators about. Visit your forums settings page, and if you’re a moderator you’ll see a new section called moderator settings. These settings add a new level of control to the messages you receive about reports in your group.  For each group you moderate, you can turn on or off private messages for: Each newly flagged post in your group. Each comment on a report by a fellow moderator. Each urgent comment on a report by a fellow moderator. What make a comment urgent? That’s …
• Thursday Tip: Swatch Codes
  … of the forum and group pages live (post counts, reply counts) RESPONSIVE Allow mobile views on non-mobile devices (by narrowing your browser) DROPBOX "Save to Dropbox" option on pattern receipt pages NOMAIL Show "no new messages" in the upper right corner when you have no new unread messages ALLBRAN Changes the tagline on the front page PORRIDGE Changes the tagline on the front page (Canadian/British English) BACON adds a big piece of bacon. Some people have had this one turned on for years …
• Thursday Tip: Updating your Email Address
  … The email address is the very first field there. Make sure that you have an address there, and that it is an address you can access. One other quick reminder, if you receive message notifications from us and your email address changes, make sure you also update your address in the “email settings” tab of your messages area. A lot of you have been Ravelers for a while (yay!), and we know that email addresses change over time. Thanks for taking a few minutes to make sure your information …
• Thursday Tip: Your Profile Page
  … order. important stuff Email Address: The first field is for your email address.  If you click the change link you’ll be able to update it and select whether you have your Ravelry private messages forwarded to your emails.  We only use this if you use contact us to send us a message, pattern links are emailed to the email address associated with your Paypal account.  And so you know, we never sell or share your information. Blog URL:  The blog URL is the place to …
• Tip: Magic Links, Now Even More Magical!
  … the Preview button in the upper right of the page to see how the links look and to click them to be sure you linked to the person or thing you wanted. When you magic link a person in the forums, they get a notification in their Ravelry messages that we call an “ear burn” because it says “are your ears burning?” This refers to an expression which says your ears burning is a sign someone is talking about you. You want to choose carefully when magic linking to be sure you aren’t linking the wrong …
• Tip: New Navigation on our Mobile Site!
  If you use Ravelry on a mobile device, you may notice steady improvements as we work to optimize Ravelry for these smaller screens. Our newest improvement is to the mobile navigation menu: This menu is available from any of our mobile-optimized pages: forums, messages, pattern search, and project search. From any of those pages, when you are in mobile view, click on the top tab and this navigation menu will appear, making it very easy for you to go to different sections of Ravelry and quickly …
• Tip: Mobile Project Search
  … you through the mobile project search – a mobile-device friendly interface for the projects section of our advanced search. The hardest part about the mobile project search is getting there! When you’re on any other mobile page on Ravelry (forums, pattern search, messages, library) you can click on the name of the page at the top to open the mobile navigation. From there click on the search link to get a handy pop-up with links to all the section of advanced search, including project search …
• Tip: New Navigation Look
  … here) your recently viewed patterns That covers the left side of the navigation, so let’s move to the right side where you can see your Ravelry. This is where you can access your forums, your notebook, your Pro account if you have one, see your unread messages, and access your profile. If you hover (or tap once on a touch device) over the forums link you’ll get this handy dropdown. Here you can see any unread replies, links to posts of interest to you, and a direct link to your forum tabs …
• Thursday Tip: Three Ways to Get Your Pattern Updates
  … pattern”. Clicking that will take you to a website where you can easily download the most recent version of the pattern. 2. Find all of your available updates in your library If you know there was an update, but don’t want to hunt down that message again, you can update patterns in your library. I often don’t download the update when I receive the notification, and sometimes those updates can stack up, but there’s an easy way to update them all at once. Go to your notebook tab and click …
• Thursday Tip: Use #ravelry to add photos from Instagram
  … ever added a photo to Rav from Instagram, you've already done this. Here are more detailed instructions. 2. Add a photo to Instagram and add #ravelry in the caption. 3. After you post it, log in to Ravelry and you will see that you have a new message. The message will look something like this. 4. Click “yes, add this photo” and you will be shown a list of options as to where to add it. I scrolled down to “use an existing yarn” as my picture is of my handspun that was already in Ravelry and …
• Tip: Use #ravelry to Add Photos from Instagram
  … projects. So convenient… but wait! There’s more! The Magic of #ravelry With your Instagram account linked to your Ravelry account, you can use the #ravelry when you are uploading a picture to Instagram. When you do, you’ll get a Ravelry message from our lovely mascot Bob! From that message click on the yes, add this photo button and you’ll be taken to a page where you can add your photo to an existing project or stash entry or create a new project or stash entry with the picture. If you …
• Thursday Tip: Use the RSS, Luke
  … (ifttt.com). This site lets you glue sites, apps and email together so that changes in one place can cause something to happen on the other. Here are some cool things things that you could do with your RSS feeds and IFTTT: Receive a text message when a certain colorway of a yarn that you need becomes available for trade or sale. Automatically post a status update to Facebook whenever you queue a new project. Tweet from a special account any time a new thread is started in your local knitting …
• Thursday Tip: Sharing is Caring
  … public projects.  The url for your project notebook – www.ravelry.com/projects/yourusername - shows all your projects to Ravelry users, and all your public projects to visitors who are not logged in.  This page is a nice gallery to share what you create with friends and family who aren’t on Ravelry.   Social sharing!  After you make an item public we give you the option to share it via social media or Ravelry private message. I look forward to seeing what you share!
• Thursday Tip: Forums Tab
  … about radar in this post from Sarah.  And the last tab in the row is the settings tab – here is a treasure trove of settings, mostly related to the forums. You can remove the big 6 forums from your forums page, hide your voting buttons, control report messaging if you’re a moderator, organize your groups into tabs and more! Finally, just below that row of tabs is a search box. You can enter a search term and a set of boards to search, and then we’ll take you to the advanced search for forum …