On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
When I hop around mediawiki.org currently, I'm being incessantly poked in the eye by a very bright "61" because I had the audacity to watch a talk page. Clearly this is broken. Of course I also have the string "new messages (2,312)" from LiquidThreads rewritten as "noise" using per-user JavaScript, so at this point I'm just continuing to pray that the Flow team has made a best effort to learn from past mistakes.
Mine is 52 and "New messages (1,826)", which turns me off looking at either.
The UI under the "52" doesnt show me 52 notifications - it shows me about 20. It includes a "mark all as read" link, but I cant guess whether that will mark the ~20 as read (which would be good, as they are all Talk:Flow), or all 52, including the 32 I cant see (which would be bad as an important/interesting notification could be in the other ~32).
I dont mind 1,826 new messages as much, but would love [[Special:NewMessages]] to first let me pick which threads I want to read or mark as read based on only the thread page and 'section' name.