Quite...
I always use the notifications bit on the side bar - the amount of scrolling I'm having to do at present!! If you have outstanding notices wouldn't it make more sense to put them the other way round? I prefer to read them in order of arrival, not most recent first.
I must be strange (well I know I am odd) but when I click on the notification link on my computer it takes me straight to that posting.................odd.
It takes me directly to the post yes - but I have to scroll down the notifications list to get to the bottom of it to be able to get at the oldest post. Easy-peasy if I'm prepared to read the most recent post first! But that isn't getting the conversation is it?
Ah, I now see what you are getting at...............put it down to iq zilch.
I don't see any sort by box. Where is it? All I see at the side is My messages, My discussions and the infuriating points and badges. Just like gold stars in the Infants classes I used to teach.
I do the same as Eileen, at least I think I do, but it means reading my email notifications backwards and, as they are interspersed with all sorts of other stuff it's a bit tedious.
really "unread" would be nice, like lots (most) other fora. But I know enough about the technology to believe that would be difficult to add for this forum. It knows, just hard to connect the dots.
I don't use the notifications. By the time I've scrolled to the notifications words, clicked on it to open the list, then scrolled within it and got back to the post after the one I was looking at I've forgotten what I was looking at - I nearly forgot what I was saying while I checked it ......
two parts of the page that scroll at different speeds is technically very clever.... but.
There are currently 6 notifications there for this topic - having read to the end do I have to "mark as read"? Should I really have to ask myself that?
I started off three years ago with email notifications. Found myself doing lots of admin effort so changed my approach. Though at least with the emails I could delete all in three key strokes.
It gets worse .... of course .... the topics on the topics page have titles that describe the subject. That's how I know what I'm interested in. The notifications have posters names. I find myself mentally combining the lists to figure out what I actually want to read. Durrr.
But basically, if I'm telling a computer what it already knows something is wrong.
Give me back the link with "8 minutes ago" from the topics page.
I have an unfortunate memory ..... getting the conversation is very important to me.
PS - I just checked ..... no matter how many times I navigate to this topic from the topics page, and read the posts in this topic, the notifications don't disappear.
I made the mistake of clicking "see all notifications". Its a very very very very long list. I didn't find the end.
Has everyone else on the forum responded to all notifications? One at a time.
PPS I did try "mark all as read". They are all there, marked as read.
I understand its a different paradigm. Unfortunately not how my mind works.
end rant .....
Think I can agree with every single point! The conversation is important to me too. And if I have read an entire thread (and let's face it, some are very very long) yes, wouldn't it be nice not to have to tick off each indivdual thing. Or at least see the first few words of the post so I can say "read that" - I hate the x answered y in a discussion by z - totally meanigless. But it's still marginally easier than see all notification - because getting that up is a pain in the anatomy...
Unlike most people - I read every single post. Every day, even on holiday (or it gets out of hand). And on another even busier forum - which is getting busier by the day Victims of our own success I suppose!
Below last posting on right hand side.............I just scroll down there and click.
No rain here, could do with some..............any spare?
Think anyone in Germany would offer you theirs! Wish ours would push off further south - Rome has had to switch off its fountains today!
Thank you; found it but it doesn't exactly jump out at you, does it?
Bucketed all day here yesterday and still drizzling this AM. Sunny now, though.
Agree!
I've been very far behind, having to use a computer not my own for a couple of weeks. I found if I saved all the "new posts" until the end I didn't get any notifications as people added their posts, and could read the whole thing at once, Also I've gone to the complete list of notifications and ticked off all the "unread" ones in threads I had just read through.
I refer to "ticked off all the unread ones in threads I had just read through" as "telling the computer what it already knows". Like having a dog and barking.oneself.
Point is, the computer doesn't know, as I only click one notification, not the other 10 or 20 or whatever it is.
I understand. I think its a reasonable assumption that I've listened to the conversation from where I last left off.
Depends whether one thinks in topics/threads/cconversations or individual posts.
Perhaps I should mention - I don't "tweet".
I think our mistake is to ever imagine that technology is reasonable.... that is if we define reasonable as in sync. with the human mind which does not function on sequences of zeros and ones.
I don't tweet either, although I do have a twillter account. I follow this forum by using the list of notifications. I don't really know any other way to follow it where I would be sure of picking up every post and all the conversations within every post. I also follow a couple of other groups on Patient, and all the notifications come through in one feed, listed from newest to oldest, not sorted by group. I just found I could mark as read several dozen notifications very quickly if I saved the new posts, where I'm not yet getting individual notifications, until later. Also I can scroll through the list and mark as read any that are coming from what is often obviously the same post which I've already read. At one point recently I was five days behind, yet by doing this I found yesterday I was actually able to deal with the backlog in short order. Unlike Eileen, of course, I'm not the expert everyone needs to hear, just an interested spectator in most cases!