New notication type for followed equipment items
Support for auto-renewing subscriptions completed
Dear AstroBin user,
For a long time (between 2015 and 2022), AstroBin had a Folllow button for equipment items. However, this button didn't really do anything except record your follow.
The reason is that up until last year, AstroBin's equipment database was quite fragmented (see here) so if you followed a certain equipment item, it was no guarantee that you'd be notified of new images that were tagged with the same equipment item (in theory) but under a different spelling (therefore a different object in the database).
Since the AstroBin equipment database has been upgraded, defragmented, and unified, following equipment items makes sense again, so a new notification has been added, to notify you of new images acquired with equipment items that you followed.
Some of you might not want these notification, and/or might want to stop following some equipment items.
This email is to show you how to do that if you didn't know already.