Thanks for the clarification! I think there would be some value in either putting some message to that effect on the dialogue page, or else having a page linked from there that provides more explanation of what’s going on and what everything means.
(The former might be tricky, since what it would be useful to see there might depend on what’s in the user’s notifications and maybe also on whether they got to the dialogue page by clicking on one of those notifications or by other means. Or maybe it would be bad for it to depend on that since then the contents of the page would change in not-so-predictable ways, which would be confusing in itself. But maybe a message along the lines of “At least one other user has checked the box to mark you as a user they would like to dialogue with. The most recent time this happened was about two days ago.” Or something; I haven’t really thought this through.)
Thanks for the clarification! I think there would be some value in either putting some message to that effect on the dialogue page, or else having a page linked from there that provides more explanation of what’s going on and what everything means.
(The former might be tricky, since what it would be useful to see there might depend on what’s in the user’s notifications and maybe also on whether they got to the dialogue page by clicking on one of those notifications or by other means. Or maybe it would be bad for it to depend on that since then the contents of the page would change in not-so-predictable ways, which would be confusing in itself. But maybe a message along the lines of “At least one other user has checked the box to mark you as a user they would like to dialogue with. The most recent time this happened was about two days ago.” Or something; I haven’t really thought this through.)
That seems like a good idea! (I don’t know exactly when we’ll get to it).
(Also, sorry for the brevity of my messages; I am grateful for the details in yours)
Brevity is fine. I’m sure you have other things to do besides replying to my comments.