Further Forum Fun or Shades of Sisyphus
Posted , 11 users are following.
In desperation I spent a couple of hours and managed to get the whole first page of notifications to be for a single long thread and pressed the mark all as read button, hoping it would be for that page only. Well, it marked ALL as read. But oddly enough the "NEXT PAGE" button appeared at the bottom.
This is not very useful as I know there are posts from several day ago which I haven't read, but every time I get far enough to think, maybe I didn't read this one, and go to look (so far have actually seen them all) I have to return to the top of the list again and commence scrolling down all over again.
In the good old days of not so long ago (and this is making the last rather horrible update look good) you could at least tell what you hadn't read yet because those posts all stayed at the top of your list of notifications. Others would drop down, still accessible if you wanted them, into chronological order below. In even better times before this fiasco started the 'read' and 'unread' posts were distinguished by colour so it was much more user friendly and really easy to go through and mark as read all the posts you'd just read in a particular thread. You also always could tell if you had followed a new post. Now there's no way to tell unless you go to the post .... and then have to start your endless downward scrolling all over again when you return to the list.
I think I shall have to give it up as a bad job any attempt to read the contributions from a few days ago. I'll never get there.....
3 likes, 50 replies
Flutterbie57 Anhaga
Posted
Progress ! On the site I mean. Suddenly my notifications have flooded in. I could not find any in spam, so I sent a message to the moderator. Perhaps they have sorted it for me.
One step ahead !
Thank you to all you people who are trying to sort through the new system as my head is in a spin, and thank you for explaining Sisiphus Anhaga. I was just about to ask Dr Google. I remember the story from childhood.
I do hope the site gets easier to understand, if I ignore it for awhile. I am trying to physically work hard, on very little energy, and by the time I turn the computer on, brain power has shut down.
I hope everyone is muddling along fine.
EileenH Flutterbie57
Posted
Muddle is about right...
Emis_Moderator Flutterbie57
Posted
Hi Flutterbie57,
Your email address was showing as blocked so as mentioned in another thread I have removed the report so your emails should now be ok.
If you ever have this issue again you should receive a link on your notification page that you can use to remove the block status. Alternatively either Private Message me or Report a post using the "Other" option to send us a message.
Regards,
Alan
Flutterbie57 Emis_Moderator
Posted
Thankyou Alan.
Emis_Moderator Anhaga
Posted
Hi all,
As I mentioned in another discussion I am aware of the "Mark as read" problems including the lack of the "Load more" button until you have less than one page of unread notifications. I have passed this and all of your feedback on and have asked for this to be addressed/rectified as a matter of high priority.
I'll keep the discussions about this updated with any progress.
Regards,
Alan
nick67069 Emis_Moderator
Posted
Alen,
Couple of upgrades ago all unread emails were printed in "bold" . That was much easier then current version. Also if I can suggest, either bring "mark as read" box ( smaller would be better) and/or enable user to rightclick on the message and mark it "read".
Suggestion:
Ideally, this screen should resemble classic solution like emails in yahoo or gmail.
Solution would be a check box next to the message (left side) , let us check of MULTIPLE messages and then one box with "mark as read".
Emis_Moderator nick67069
Posted
Hi Nick,
I have asked that unread notifications have a background colour to make them stand out even more than just having the button (smaller) back.
Your suggestion is something I have asked for a few times in the past and I have suggested this once again as it is more useful than the current set up even once the issues are fixed.
Thanks for the feedback.
Alan
Emis_Moderator nick67069
Posted
Hi Nick,
I may have misinterpreted your comment about unread emails in bold before. I do still have bold on received emails not read. I assume this would be down to your email provider as for any other emails received showing unread status depending on the provider.
Also below is a preview of the notifications page work in development including ability to select several posts and mark as read (ignore typo, will be fixed before release) and highlighting unread posts.
mary19068 Emis_Moderator
Posted
Hi Alan
I am still receiving the same posts and replies over and over again....give us a clue🤔🤗
Emis_Moderator mary19068
Posted
Hi Mary,
Do you mean emails or notification links on your profile page or both? I have checked with our email sender and there are no duplicate emails being sent but I cannot see your notifications page as it is only visible to you. I have asked the developers to check in the database but am still waiting for a reply.
The only other thing I can think of is if the notification page has "duplicate" links but are actually links to different posts. For example my notifications from yesterday show below, there are a few re Eileen's posts that look the same but are all to different comments. I have asked for work to be done on that page to make it easier to differentiate the posts but that will take a while due to the way the links/notifications are generated.
Alan
EileenH Emis_Moderator
Posted
By the way Alan - why are the notifications underlined? I could understand it if the underlining disappeared when you had read them or something.
Emis_Moderator EileenH
Posted
It's just because they are "standard format" links ie, blue underline.
mary19068 Emis_Moderator
Posted
Hi Alan,
It's emails. Had quite a few duplicates today, but have had a whole load of new ones late afternoon. Will wait and see if they duplicate later or tomorrow....happy days Alan!... you've got your work cut out Eh! Do you think making the changes were worth all the hiccups?....only time will tell i suppose, but good on you for keeping in touch with us.....😊👍