🛠️ QQ Mail Sign-ups Fixed, Plus a Fix for Article Reposts | 11.13

Hey Pickful community,

Here’s what changed since our last announcement.

📮 QQ Mail receives sign-up emails again

The QQ Mail problem from our 11.11 announcement is fixed, and the people who reported it have confirmed the emails now arrive.

If you signed up with a QQ address and never got the confirmation email, click “Didn’t receive confirmation instructions?” on the sign-in page to send a new one. Your account is still there; no need to sign up again.

💬 DMs through your AI assistant, end to end

On 11.12 we shipped email alerts for unread DMs, and DMs through MCP so your AI assistant can send and read messages for you. A few of you asked how the pieces fit together, so here’s one full round trip:

1. You start it. Tell your assistant who to message and what to say. Nothing is sent until you approve it.
2. They receive it. The message comes from your account, exactly as if you’d sent it on the website, and lands in their inbox.
3. Email alert. If they opted in and haven’t read it after 30 minutes, they get an email. It never includes the message itself, and it’s sent at most once every 24 hours.
4. They reply on the website or in the app.
5. It comes back to you. Your assistant reads the conversation and tells you what they said. Reading doesn’t mark anything as read.

To set it up: tick “Email me about unread private messages” on your Settings page, and when you create an API token, tick the permissions to read and send private messages.

🔧 Fixed

• Reposts of articles (as opposed to short posts) returned an error when opened. Fixed.
• Mermaid diagrams that start with a theme setting showed up as raw code. They now render as diagrams.

For example, this diagram from our 11.12 article on T3 Code (in Chinese) used to show up as a block of code:

🔍 What search engines index

Google recently dropped most of our pages from its index. One likely reason: the large number of very short posts was judged thin content, and that dragged our articles down with them. So we narrowed what we ask search engines to index:

Reading, sharing and likes on Pickful are unaffected. If you want something to be found through search, publish it as an article.

💬 To the community

All of this is live on Web, iOS and Android, no app update needed. If anything looks off, send us a DM.

Pickful Team
11.13