Re: [EE] [Wikitech-l] Is simplicity is the key to success of Echo and Watchlist? - EE

9 Sep 2014

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Michał Łazowik &lt;mlazowik(a)me.com&gt; wrote:

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  Wiadomość napisana przez Danny Horn
&lt;dhorn(a)wikimedia.org&gt; w dniu 5 wrz
 2014, o godz. 02:00:

  Rather than going directly to the topic page, the
bundled "new topic"
 notifications will take you to the board, sorted by newly-created topics.
 The plus, obviously, is that you get fewer notifications; the minus is  that
  you may need to scroll down on the board to make
sure you don't miss
 something. 
 Maybe mark unread messages somehow? Some vertical line on the right/left
 maybe?

You mean like the way the "UserName and three others responded"
notification of new posts on a topic highlights the new posts? (try it e.g.
<
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:S12prb6trf24nhkz?fromnotif=1#flow-post…
...
 ) 
The "3 new topics on Talk:Sandbox" notification could do something similar,
showing a vertical line next to the title bars of new posts.

We could add a "Highlight all posts newer than this" to each post's action
menu, but it feels a bit esoteric. User JS or a gadget could easily do it.

Regards,

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=S Page  Features engineer