Notifications are more than a little weird, and not really in a good way.
On old-LW, if I want to know what I need to be responding to, I can go to my profile page and see everything I’ve posted recently together with others’ replies, or go to my inbox and see just the replies (along with PMs, and unfortunately without context, but of course there are links).
On LW2, my profile page shows only my own posts and comments, so I look at notifications. That means clicking on the little bell icon at top right, which drops down a sort of menu-like thing saying “X replied to a comment on Y” for various X and Y. There’s no indication here of what they said, nor of what comment of mine they’re replying to, nor even when it happened. I could follow all those links, but perhaps I can do better: at the bottom of the menu-like thing is a link saying “All notifications”. (It’s not grey, unlike pretty much everything else on LW2, so it must be important!)
So I click on that, and get … a blank page. (It has the topbar and the sidebar and the Intercom thing at bottom right, but no actual content.)
I guess that last thing is just a bug, but I’d like to put in a plea to make sure that once the bug is fixed the list of notifications is at least as useful as the corresponding features on old-LW, and suggest that it might be worth thinking whether there’s a way to make the notification dropdown a bit more informative. (Perhaps add dates/times? First few words of each reply? Dunno.)
Notifications are more than a little weird, and not really in a good way.
On old-LW, if I want to know what I need to be responding to, I can go to my profile page and see everything I’ve posted recently together with others’ replies, or go to my inbox and see just the replies (along with PMs, and unfortunately without context, but of course there are links).
On LW2, my profile page shows only my own posts and comments, so I look at notifications. That means clicking on the little bell icon at top right, which drops down a sort of menu-like thing saying “X replied to a comment on Y” for various X and Y. There’s no indication here of what they said, nor of what comment of mine they’re replying to, nor even when it happened. I could follow all those links, but perhaps I can do better: at the bottom of the menu-like thing is a link saying “All notifications”. (It’s not grey, unlike pretty much everything else on LW2, so it must be important!)
So I click on that, and get … a blank page. (It has the topbar and the sidebar and the Intercom thing at bottom right, but no actual content.)
I guess that last thing is just a bug, but I’d like to put in a plea to make sure that once the bug is fixed the list of notifications is at least as useful as the corresponding features on old-LW, and suggest that it might be worth thinking whether there’s a way to make the notification dropdown a bit more informative. (Perhaps add dates/times? First few words of each reply? Dunno.)