The user info in the sidebar now has an envelope which is a link to a users inbox. The envelope is red if there are new messages, otherwise it is gray.
The inbox and sent pages are now styled similar to the rest of lesswrong. In addition they now also have the sidebar.
I have an enhancement suggestion: have two colors for the “Inbox” icon, one to indicate that there are only comment replies (green color?), and another one for private messages (orange). This way, I won’t need to check the inbox for the comments, if I know that I have read them anyway, but I won’t miss private messages as a result of not checking it when new comments arrive.
The inbox is a feature that came for free with the Reddit codebase but it was “lost” when the site was restyled. You will notice that the formatting of inbox page is totally messed up, this is also because it wasn’t included in redesign. Notification of replies is on the list of things to implement but there’s some higher priority work going on at the moment. Since it is a small change and many people seem to be requesting it I hope that we will get to it soon.
no, but you can see from your inbox, which, for some odd reason, is not linked to anywhere.
ETA: Well, not linked to anywhere is a stretch. You can navigate there as follows:
click some user’s name
click “send a message” (off to the right near your and their karma scores)
there’ll be a menu under the site logo with “compose, inbox, sent”
I find it’s easier to just bookmark the inbox page, or let your browser start autocompleting it for you
The user info in the sidebar now has an envelope which is a link to a users inbox. The envelope is red if there are new messages, otherwise it is gray.
The inbox and sent pages are now styled similar to the rest of lesswrong. In addition they now also have the sidebar.
Thanks!
I have an enhancement suggestion: have two colors for the “Inbox” icon, one to indicate that there are only comment replies (green color?), and another one for private messages (orange). This way, I won’t need to check the inbox for the comments, if I know that I have read them anyway, but I won’t miss private messages as a result of not checking it when new comments arrive.
Thank you!
The inbox is a feature that came for free with the Reddit codebase but it was “lost” when the site was restyled. You will notice that the formatting of inbox page is totally messed up, this is also because it wasn’t included in redesign. Notification of replies is on the list of things to implement but there’s some higher priority work going on at the moment. Since it is a small change and many people seem to be requesting it I hope that we will get to it soon.
Whoa, that is the most useful feature yet. Fantastic; thank you.
no problem =)