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Notifications should be per thread not per post.

I had 46 notification messages when I logged in today. Two threads were very very busy with over twenty posts each in the last three hours. I spent an unacceptable amount of time pruning the notifications list, going to a page, removing all notifications from that thread, refreshing, doing the same to the next batch. I only had to navigate to three pages to get caught up and there were 46 notifications. I wish I knew enough programming to suggest a solution that would be acceptable in terms of server side resources when it came to processing what notifications to send down the pipes. Having the notification process check each players notification queue to see if a thread was already listed, and then just update the notification to a new "There are multiple new posts in thread such and such."
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I would love it if it would offer the option of a daily update instead of a constant notification of each post. In less than a hour I had 30+ notifications to threads that I did not follow but are part and parcel of the group. Even the method John suggests would probably be better than how it sems to be now.
Yes. I too would love to see this change, notification per thread, not per post.
Yes, it would be MUCH better... =P
Seconding this, great idea. Especially if you're part of the GM Academy :D
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This spurt of posting there has almost made me leave the group but instead I'm just having to dismiss bulk notifications without reading anything. I just hope I'm not missing any pm's sent to me. It is hard to sort out pm's from all those notifications.
Yep. I'm trying to read everything I can. I feel there will be some point when this will be too much though :D (It actually makes me slow on my GM prep because I spend so much time on the forums :P Well it's mostly good advice for a GM anyway ^^)
<a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/415663/a-way-to-turn-off-notificantions-on-certain-campaigns#post-430343" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/415663/a-way-to-turn-off-notificantions-on-certain-campaigns#post-430343</a>
I support both of these idea.
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I had to leave the group because of the notifications. I was getting game requests mixed in with notifications about this or that post update and it was just taking to long to dig through everything. I personally would love the option of following a thread instead of being automatically made to follow everything in the group otherwise I would get notification about stuff I'm not interested in constantly.
Adding a ditto to this because even beyond GM Academy it is needed.
absolutely. it should read, "you have x new posts in this thread" and the same for PM's. "3 new pms from this guy, 2 from this guy"
It might also be nice to have a quick list of games you're in and games you run, rather than a constantly shifting list of games with recent activity. And I mean "quick list" as in "name and GMed by" without all the extra info. Then just have the title go bold or change color or something to alert you of new forum posts in the game. Same with the "Welcome, So and So" button at the top changing color to indicate you have new PMs, and the My Campaigns and Community Forums buttons changing color to indicate new activity there. It'd be easier to see at a glance what it is causing the commotion without having to sift through a bunch of redundant "X posted in Y!" notices.
this is nice and all, but unless one of your programmer types can actually write out some pseudo code to get the ball rolling on this I don't think it'll ever happen. Remember, roll20 is three guys.
Tonight for instance, I came back after just four hours and only nine threads updated. but I had 34 notifications in the queue to process.
Oh my god, by Bahamut, please, Holy Roll20 gods, please give us like an inbox that lets us just SEE our notifications so we can sort through them better at least.
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oh god yes!
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I agree completely with this suggestion, in fact I was about ready to suggest it myself. This coding is actually quite simple to make.. if (topic.unread == true) topic.numNewMessages += else { topic.unread = true topic.numNewMessages = 1 } And when opening said topics... topic.unread = false topic.numNewMessages = 0 Of course this is complete pseudocode, but in all honesty it's not difficult to add something like this, I suspect it was more of an oversight than anything else, or maybe a personal preference of one of the interface coders. Edit: Also this same method can be used to calculate number of unread posts in topics on the forums in general, even ones we aren't subscribed to.
+1
<a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/459488/#post-619739" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/459488/#post-619739</a> +1
+1 Total agreement. This is a really annoying feature.
I know I said it before, but I'm heaping on again, because it's been a while and I still want to see this. +1
I agree. Ouch
Alternate pseudocode, in case they are currently handling it more like this: Add Notification function (called when someone makes an update to a thread you're subscribed to): insert message "X commented on Y" for user Z In which case it can be exactly like the original poster said, just update your function like so: select messages from user Z containing "on Y". If there are none, insert message "X commented on Y" for user Z. If there is one, update it to "X and other(s) commented on Y" - you don't even have to bother checking whether it already says that. There may be some trickiness on Step 1 with differentiating threads starting with the same text (eg, if you were looking for "on [Help] Dice Macros" but also found "on [Help] Dice Macros are Failing"), but probably you could just look for the URL and the unique thread ID. e.g. This thread doesn't need to use the title in the URL at all, you can get there with this: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/459488/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/459488/</a> so just look for "/forum/post/459488/" or even "/459488/". Probably that's either a database column all its own, or is at least contained within html anchor tags within the text.
Something needs to be done... to make this more useful part of the system. Inbox, or single notification per thread, or when you read a thread all notifications for that thread are cleared [or option to do this on list 'clear all for this thread']. Also which 'campaign' they are from! Related - finding old messages - private etc seems to be ...almost impossible?
Jim: all your private messages are stored. <a href="https://app.roll20.net/private_message/inbox" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/private_message/inbox</a> To quickly get access to which campaigns you have joined: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/search//?showing=participate" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/search//?showing=participate</a> Finding conversations you have been in across all the various forums is not nearly so easy.