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New feature: push notifications and notification centre
posted by Travis BellSTAFFMOD on February 15, 2017 at 6:17 PM
Fresh off the press is a push notification and notification centre. You'll see a "bell" icon sitting next to your username for this. Notifications update automatically so you don't even need to refresh the page. If a new notification comes in, BING (there's no sound, that's just me), it appears.
One cool thing is that by using these notifications (by clicking the links to go to the item that is notifying, ie. a discussion), only the first reply is thrown into view which means you automatically get a "jump to newest" thread functionality. Pretty cool, right?
Things left to do for this feature:
Add a "mark all as read" button- Hook up mentions (right now it's just replies)
Show it in the discussion pages, and not just the rest of the site
Reply by LucusNon
on February 19, 2017 at 1:23 AM
Yeah I mentioned Usenet just for historical reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_quoting
(I'd guess it's possible that such quoting conventions might have even older origins that predated Usenet.)
Reply by PT 100
on February 19, 2017 at 1:48 AM
Yes, we know that, and we know you folks are working hard here. It is much appreciated. We're not intending to nit pick, just to offer some constructive suggestions for you to consider whenever you get time to do so.
Reply by chrisjdel
on March 16, 2017 at 5:55 PM
The bell doesn't seem to be working all of a sudden. I'm not getting any notifications, even when someone posts a reply to one of my posts. I went to account settings, turned the notifications off and then back on again, but it still doesn't work. Is this a site issue or perhaps a setting I've inadvertently changed myself?
Reply by PT 100
on March 16, 2017 at 6:23 PM
The notification bell is working for me. Did you perhaps stop watching the thread? That would turn off notifications for that thread. Make sure you're still watching it (left panel settings).