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Group message notification by thread and campaign

In principle roll20 is, between gaming sessions, acting like a large forum, yet it misses many of the functions of modern forum software. This particular suggestion concerns the "notification list" at the top right. I suggest the following: When there are multiple new replies in a single forum/campaign thread, don't make individual notifications for each. Instead display <Thread Title> (4 new) or something to that effect. Notifications could also be grouped by campaign and forum for an even easier time. Add a button dismiss 10 to clear the list of the currently showing notifications so you don't have to manually remove them or visit the forums unless you want to. Some campaigns generate a lot of notifications. Maybe there should even be a button show full list linking to a separate page showing all notifications in a list for easy perusal. Give priority (put them to the top of the notification list and give them another color) to campaign messages over replies to your forum posts, and maybe even give extra priority to messages in campaigns you are the GM in. Motivation: Currently the "notification list" at the top right uses a flat listing of all new messages or replies you get. When you are a member of few, low-volume campaigns this is not a big problem. But once the number of watched posts increases, this system shows its weaknesses. It is tremendously spammy and makes the notification system nigh useless if you are member of a campaign with a lot of activity or has authored some forum threads that get a lot of replies. An example of this is the GM Academy "campaign" which is acting mainly as a sort of private discussion forum focused on GMs. There can be several dozens on new messages in there every day and when every single post gets its separate notification it becomes very hard to track. Not only that - even when visiting the thread (which normally means you read all the new messages in it) those other new messages are currently not removed from the notification list - you have to remove them manually. Grouping notifications by thread sounds like the I had to leave the GM Academy campaign since I ran a campaign of my own and knew that my legitimate GM-related messages would drown and get lost in the avalanche of other notifications. . Griatch
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