Now I have to click twice to read a notification. There used to be a permanent notifications tab and I could go directly to a notification. Now I have to open the notifications list every time. Is this supposed to be an improvement? Does anyone know how to contact the site to question this change?
I don't think it was an error. The "improvement" created blank space for advert at the cost of extra clicks for user. Anoying, isn't it? Have no idea how to request the change back to original.
and the "last reply" links are no longer a link for me. But they were annoying anyway as they only went to the topic not the last reply as they used to, and the sort order doesn't help.
it really means I don't read as much as I used to
I always have had to open the list...
I don't know what Julian is referring to as that is an annoyance I haven't encountered yet. It is really annoying to have to open notifications tab for every single notification. Why would something like this change? I always follow all the topics in this forum and many in the osteoporosis forum, so having to add perhaps fifty or a hundred clicks on a given day, depending how busy the site has been, is excessively annoying! Would this be a result of a recent update to Windows and not the site? Who and how can I contact Patient?
If I've ever had last reply links I've been totally oblivious to them.
I don't get any ads. It saves no space anyway as far as I can see. It just mean the tab closes every single time you view a notification. I used to be able to read a notification scroll to the top, click on the next. Now I have to click on notifications again. Not so bad if you are only looking at a dozen or so items, but if you don't keep up, as I didn't this week because I was busy, suddley there are dozens or maybe a hundred notifications, and you have to click on notifications tab, and then the notification itself, for every single one of them! i don't think my already overused mouse hand is going to like this.
Just report your post using the flag at the bottom.
None of it bothers me really - the grey tone for the flash is silly, you have to look for it, but otherwise I have every post delivered to the door in my email and work through the 50 or so a day from the 2 forums in order. Which is why it irritates me when the notifications aren't working.
Worse things happen at sea - and I can tell you, the last big revamps they did were awful! You couldn't get on the site!!!
Counted them, 71 notifications left to view this morning. Sigh, I feel tired just thinking about it. Although I do try to read all the responses on a given post and then scroll through the list and click them as read, so guess I'll have to be more diligent about that. Double sigh.
What grey tone for the flash? What's the "flash". And really early on I stopped notifications coming to my email, except new posts or messages, because it filled up my inbox (well, truth be told, spam folder) too quickly. That wouldn't save the clicks anyway,would it? Still have to toggle back and forth to email.
On my version in Chrome, up in the right corner of the page is an area with my avatar and name, two boxes with My messages and My discussions, Number of points and a grey star with Notifications and badges which flashes when there are still unread notifications. Previously it was in red and the whole thing flashed (I think, sort of thing you don't really register and then when it is gone...) Now it is just wishy grey and the star winks - too pathetic to say it flashes really!
Oh, I never had a flashing red star but now that you mention it, there is a feeble winky grey one now. Seems unnecessary to say the least. I'll give that up if they give me back my more convenient access to notifications.
I look at the main page for the forum that lists all the topics.
Below each post is number of replies and something like "Last reply 37 minutes ago" which is a link.
I'm a bit selective about what I read.
Originally clicking it took me to the last reply. A few weeks ago that degraded to taking me to the topic with a bizarre sort sequence.
Now its no longer a link.
For any topic with more than a few posts there's an awful lot of scrolling to figure out where the discussion is up to.
Bah humbug
I just click on the notification and it takes me right to that particular reply. If it's been an active post I often read a lot of the new posts there and then, and try to click them as read on my list of new notifications so I'm not wasting too much time looking at things already seen. The notifications list I still see, with that stupid extra click, is sorted with the most recent at the top, but you can also go to a page and view all your unread notifications at once, although you can't actually read them, you just can see how many there are and how long ago they were posted.
You probably have advert block. Screen realestate is limited. You know how the notifications were listed (top right) in the scroll box, and then you can pick any to click as alink to the actual post. That scroll box was using a space ( about 1/4 of the screen hight) . If you don't have advert blocked, then in that space it shows advertisment, which is gone as soon as you open " Notifications & badges". I think that is the reason for change in setup/design of the screen.
Of course I have an ad block! But correspondence from the moderator - the IT people claim that nothing has changed. My theory is that AI is developing methods of manipulating us!
Maybe it's a simple as the most recent update to Windows. Sometimes things just get "improved" too much.
Especially with the "nesting" thing which I hate. But this one is better than the one on HealthUnlocked - that really is a nightmare!
no it is not the window updates... I am on win7 and still in control when/if the updates are installed. There was a change on the web site for sure.
I turn adds on/off. Some of the sites don't work or get hung if you have addvert block on.