What is the "Recommended in Confluence" about?
Asked by Susan Grodsky:

I started receiving these emails spontaneously. It looks like I'm getting a thumbnail of the page in a particular space that was most visited over some period of time.

How do I:

Control the space that is being monitored?

Control (or even discover) the time period that is being monitored?

Control (or even discover) the users that are being monitored?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: In addition, if you do not intend to receive the Recommended Updates email notification, you can go to [http://\<confluence-url\>users/viewmyemailsettings.action](http://hades:9090/users/viewmyemailsettings.action) and unchecked the 'Subscribe to recommended updates' box. If you have done that but you are still receiving the mail, you might be hitting these known bugs:

- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25213>

- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25294>

These bug were already been fixed in the latest version of Confluence.

comments: author: Susan Grodsky
body: The URL you cited above ([http://\<confluence-url\>users/viewmyemailsettings.action](http://hades:9090/users/viewmyemailsettings.action)) does not work. I entered it as <https://confluence.atlassian.com/users/viewmyemailsettings.action> and got a 'page not found' error.

How should I enter this URL?


author: saravanan subramanian
body: Hi conflu

comments: author: saravanan subramanian
body: How confluence identifies which page to send as Recommended? - Because we received only one so far.

Thanks

Saran


author: SarahA
body: Hallo Susan

Here is some documentation that will help.

* This page describes the purpose of the email, how its content is determined, and how to subscribe/unsubscribe: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Subscribing+to+Email+Notifications+of+Updates+to+Confluence+Content#SubscribingtoEmailNotificationsofUpdatestoConfluenceContent-Subscribetorecommendedupdates>
* This one describes further configuration: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Recommended+Updates+Email+Notification>

This is an extract, relevant to your specific questions:
> Confluence chooses the content to display, based on:
>
> * Pages and blog posts that people have recently [liked](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Likes+and+Popular+Content).
> * Pages and blog posts that people have recently commented on.
> * Pages and blog posts that have recently been created.
>
> 'Recent' means any activity that occurred since the last recommended updates message was sent to you.
>
> The activities are listed in order of popularity, with the most popular at the top. Likes, comments and content creations are scored equally. Activity that involves people in your [network](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Network+Overview)ranks higher than activity not involving your network. Content in your [favourite](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding+Favourites)spaces also ranks higher than content in other spaces. The recommended updates summary does not include any content that you created yourself, and it gives a lower ranking to content that you have participated in, for example by adding a comment or updating the page.

I hope this answers your questions. :)

Cheers, Sarah


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