We added two little features today:
One comments and replies, you can view who liked the content by clicking on the icon with 3 horizontal lines and then "View Likes". This is more important for mobile users who were not able to view who likes the content. We'll be adding it to the post themselves as well as adding a few more features to the drop down list.
You can now browse groups by location at [agnostic.com] - Only the groups that are marked "Location" (vs "Topical" ) will show up.
Please let us know if you find some issues (aka "bugs" ).
Thanks!
Ah, you mean, for example, if you view a post BEFORE you check your notifications? We could do that for a few things (like messages and posts) but not all.
@Admin Yes, and I think I just figured out why it keeps happening. There seems to be quite a lag from when a post or a reply goes up until the alert appears. That's at least part of why it keeps happening...For example, I'll see a new group post listed on the main page, read it, and then the notification for that post shows up later.
@Admin A related issue (from a UI perspective, though probably not from a programming perspective) is that when someone likes and replies to a comment, two notifications are generated, and clicking through one to the thread leaves the other notification "unread". I think the same thing happens when there are multiple "like" notifications on a single comment. Ideally these would be aggregated ("You have N new likes on comment X." or "USER liked and replied to comment X." ) but short of that, logic that marks a notification as "read" if a user has viewed the linked content after the notification was generated would also address this.
I'm not a programmer, and I have no idea how easy or difficult any of this is, I'm just suggesting what I think would be a more user-friendly approach to notifications. Thanks for all your work on this site!
@Admin on the listing of Groups would it be possible to include the "g:" reference? I've just needed 4 and had to search then open scroll to the bottom of a post to learn it to include in a reply to another posting.
include ther "g:" reference? I don't understand.
@Admin g: reference as in g: +17 is "Traditional and Folkmusic". So that when you look at the list of groups (and IMO being able to sort the list into alphabetical order would be nice) you can note the g: reference to pass on in posts and messages to other people.
Eg. You are asking about traditional music, there is a group at "Traditional and Folkmusic" (g:+17) dedicated to folk music. There is another group for World Music at g: but I can't be bothered looking through 267 entries and then opening it up to scroll through all of its postings to get to the bottom of the page where the g: reference is located type of response.
@FrayedBear You can put the thing reference in the description of a group. We don't parse it when we list the groups as it messes up the links.
@bingst thanks for correctly interpreting what I'm trying to say. I do not see why it can be reproduced at the foot of the group page but not in the list even if described as "Traditional and Folkmusic" g#17.
#1. Working fine on Android phablet.
Apart from 2 level and below replies. Already noted by @cmadler above.