Aletto Tips

Tip 29: unfollowing takes your delivery method choices with it. Follow again later and you choose again from scratch.

Tip 28: your timeline is assembled when you open it, not when an alert is published. A channel with fifty thousand followers still writes one row per alert.

Tip 27: Discover hides channels you own and channels you already follow, so everything on it is something new.

Tip 26: every public channel has a web page. Send the link to somebody who has never installed the app and it shows them the alerts.

Tip 25: a channel update outlives the alert that made it. Delete the alert and the channel update stays where it was published.

Tip 24: the text of your alerts is encrypted before it is stored. So are the labels on your saved locations.

Tip 23: a request that goes unanswered stays pending, and a refused one reports the same way. That is deliberate — saying no should cost nothing.

Tip 22: blocking somebody takes you out of each other's suggestions. It never announces itself to them.

Tip 21: a circle member sees what you send to the circle. They do not see who else is in it.

Tip 20: pausing an alert stops it firing and keeps everything else. Deleting it takes the history with it.