in the old design, we would see a visual cue like: "inbox (1)"
now, in the new design, we must click a dropdown.
is there any visual cue in the new design? if not, i predict that many PM's will not get noticed.
g.
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However, I was planning to put the same comment as you. For years there was no visual clue and for some time we had an indication which I liked. The current redesign hides it again which is unfortunate. I like the clean space right now so there shouldn't
be the word Inbox again but just having the (1) indication behind your name/avatar to indicate something would be a nice feature.
Grz, Kris.
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personally, i'm not comfortable with it being a "feature suggestion".
imho, given that it apparently was accidentally dropped during the switch over to the
new design, it really ought to be logged as "we broke it, let's fix it before Christmas 2011".
From a QA perspective, imho, it should have been caught by a unit test or at least a human with a checklist of festures added to date.
imho, it's a big deal because private messages will be missed, guaranteed.
g.
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personally, i'm not comfortable with it being a "feature suggestion".
imho, given that it apparently was accidentally dropped during the switch over to the
new design, it really ought to be logged as "we broke it, let's fix it before Christmas 2011".
From a QA perspective, imho, it should have been caught by a unit test or at least a human with a checklist of festures added to date.
imho, it's a big deal because private messages will be missed, guaranteed.
The functionality is present, so this was NOT accidentally dropped. You are just unhappy with its new location, therefore this is a feature suggestion.
The functionality is present, so this was NOT accidentally dropped. You are just unhappy with its new location,
Terri ... you are indeed correct about the functionality being present ... unfortunately, as Kris has mentioned at
http://forums.asp.net/t/1750250.aspx *, it's also
invisible.
Quoting Kris: "with the site upgrade the possibility to view a certain number of unread posts in the Inbox has
vanished. Since this happened I noticed that most people don't read their messages that I sent them anymore as they're likely not aware of it."
Making the feature invisible was imho an absoutely aweful design decision.
Yes, i am "unhappy with its new location" with good reason.
FWIW, i'm hoping i'll win the lottery and i'm hoping that the visibility will be restored in time for Christmas 2011 because, otherwise, there'll be nothing under the tree at all for me.
B-(
regards,
Gerry
* you will probably have to type the above link by hand because of a bug with the forums.asp.net editor.
if you click the above link and get a sorry (sic) "Sorry" page, look at the address bar, if you see /p/t delete the /p.
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looks like ALL gerry's getting for Xmas is a logged feature suggestion along with the
hope that someday our PM vision will be restored.
B-)
thank you, Terri
regards, gerry
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in the old design, we would see a visual cue like: "inbox (1)"
now, in the new design, we must click a dropdown.
is there any visual cue in the new design? if not, i predict that many PM's will not get noticed.
g.
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Hi,
Simply hovering over it also opens it.
However, I was planning to put the same comment as you. For years there was no visual clue and for some time we had an indication which I liked. The current redesign hides it again which is unfortunate. I like the clean space right now so there shouldn't be the word Inbox again but just having the (1) indication behind your name/avatar to indicate something would be a nice feature.
Grz, Kris.
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I've now logged this as a feature suggestion.
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@ tmorton
personally, i'm not comfortable with it being a "feature suggestion".
imho, given that it apparently was accidentally dropped during the switch over to the new design, it really ought to be logged as "we broke it, let's fix it before Christmas 2011".
From a QA perspective, imho, it should have been caught by a unit test or at least a human with a checklist of festures added to date.
imho, it's a big deal because private messages will be missed, guaranteed.
g.
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The functionality is present, so this was NOT accidentally dropped. You are just unhappy with its new location, therefore this is a feature suggestion.
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@ tmorton
Terri ... you are indeed correct about the functionality being present ... unfortunately, as Kris has mentioned at http://forums.asp.net/t/1750250.aspx *, it's also invisible.
Quoting Kris: "with the site upgrade the possibility to view a certain number of unread posts in the Inbox has vanished. Since this happened I noticed that most people don't read their messages that I sent them anymore as they're likely not aware of it."
Making the feature invisible was imho an absoutely aweful design decision.
Yes, i am "unhappy with its new location" with good reason.
FWIW, i'm hoping i'll win the lottery and i'm hoping that the visibility will be restored in time for Christmas 2011 because, otherwise, there'll be nothing under the tree at all for me.
B-(
regards,
Gerry
* you will probably have to type the above link by hand because of a bug with the forums.asp.net editor.
if you click the above link and get a sorry (sic) "Sorry" page, look at the address bar, if you see /p/t delete the /p.
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To set your expectation, that won't be happening.
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B-(
i'm probably not going to win the lottery either
B-(
looks like ALL gerry's getting for Xmas is a logged feature suggestion along with the hope that someday our PM vision will be restored.
B-)
thank you, Terri
regards, gerry