So Microsoft has been hating on us for months, and blocking a lot of our outgoing emails. If you're using Hotmail, Outlook, Exchange, etc you might not have been receiving our email notifications about what you're following, friend requests, sales, etc. New members sometimes won't get verification emails.
We have only ever sent email to people about items they have explicitly followed. 100% opt-in. But UMD lacked the automated functions to unsubscribe people whose emails were bouncing. This looks like spam to an ISP, and rightly so.
I've been developing such functions and working directly with Microsoft. So you may get some weird notifications about UMD turning your email preference off. You can turn e-mails back on at any time (we are not un-following you from anything, just removing the e-mail pref).
It may take a while but I'll keep at this until everything is flowing again. I apologize for the black hole that's been around for a while... Totally my fault. Anyone can inbox me if you have any questions about anything.
Okay we've gotten the block removed at Microsoft. So everyone should get their notifications now. If not please edit your preferences to turn them back on. A special shout to MikeNomic to helping me out with this.