I wish the notifications icon at the top right would have have separate icon to indicate replies to my posts and my comments.
At the moment those get drowned out by notifications about posts and comments from people I follow (which are so numerous that I’ve been trained to rarely check the notification inbox, because it’s such a rabbit hole...), so I often see comments weeks or months too late.
I’d also like to be able to get email notifications for just replies to my posts and replies to my comments.
Thanks for the suggestion! I like the idea of visually distinguishing the most important notifications (i.e. the ones you might want to reply to).
There are a lot of customization options for notifications, so I’d recommend looking through your account settings:
For example, you can set “Comments on posts/events I’m subscribed to” and “Replies to my comments” to notify you both on-site and via email.
You may also prefer to batch email notifications (rather than receive them immediately) if you get too many (for example, you could batch “Comments by users I’m subscribed to” to get an email about it once per day).
Though I agree that the notification customization UI is not the best — the wording is not super clear, and I think the way notifications are categorized is not ideal. I also agree that too many notifications is a UX problem, and we have a backlog item to explore better ways to batch notifications to improve this experience (though to be honest I’m not sure when we will get around to it).
I wish the notifications icon at the top right would have have separate icon to indicate replies to my posts and my comments.
At the moment those get drowned out by notifications about posts and comments from people I follow (which are so numerous that I’ve been trained to rarely check the notification inbox, because it’s such a rabbit hole...), so I often see comments weeks or months too late.
I’d also like to be able to get email notifications for just replies to my posts and replies to my comments.
Thanks for the suggestion! I like the idea of visually distinguishing the most important notifications (i.e. the ones you might want to reply to).
There are a lot of customization options for notifications, so I’d recommend looking through your account settings:
For example, you can set “Comments on posts/events I’m subscribed to” and “Replies to my comments” to notify you both on-site and via email.
You may also prefer to batch email notifications (rather than receive them immediately) if you get too many (for example, you could batch “Comments by users I’m subscribed to” to get an email about it once per day).
Though I agree that the notification customization UI is not the best — the wording is not super clear, and I think the way notifications are categorized is not ideal. I also agree that too many notifications is a UX problem, and we have a backlog item to explore better ways to batch notifications to improve this experience (though to be honest I’m not sure when we will get around to it).