Notification changes for bookmarks
Feb 22, 2019 18:31:07 GMT -5
Post by Kurt on Feb 22, 2019 18:31:07 GMT -5
If you're seeing notifications for threads you've bookmarked, this is why: ProBoards has rolled out changes to how bookmark notifications work, moving them into the same bubble where your other notifications appear, rather than a separate total. See this thread on the ProBoards Support board for more, or see the relevant details below:
If you'd like to turn off these bookmark-related notifications, or adjust other notifications you receive, you can edit them: go to your Profile, then Edit Profile, then the Notifications tab.
Our work on v6 has seen a lot of focus placed onto streamlining of both our code and feature functionality.
We took a look at how the bookmarks work, and how you are informed of any changes to those threads you decided to mark as important. In ProBoards v5, you receive an extra menu item (“Bookmarks”) when you bookmark a thread. This navigation item can also have a notification bubble indicating that one or more bookmarked threads have been updated. This notification is entirely separate from your other forum notifications. This leads to either the menu item being completely ignored, the notification ignored, or simply the under-utilization of the bookmark feature on forums.
To fix this, we are merging bookmark notifications into the primary Profile Notifications bubble that most users commonly interact with.
Do I need to make any changes to my forum?
The answer for the vast majority of admins will be “no”. There is no required change, the notifications for bookmarks will now be merged with the rest of the Profile Notifications, rather than being separate.
For a very small segment of forums, primarily ones with extreme levels of customization, this might change how your notifications are displayed if your code is relying on grabbing the bookmark notification bubble element off the page, since that bubble has been removed.
We took a look at how the bookmarks work, and how you are informed of any changes to those threads you decided to mark as important. In ProBoards v5, you receive an extra menu item (“Bookmarks”) when you bookmark a thread. This navigation item can also have a notification bubble indicating that one or more bookmarked threads have been updated. This notification is entirely separate from your other forum notifications. This leads to either the menu item being completely ignored, the notification ignored, or simply the under-utilization of the bookmark feature on forums.
To fix this, we are merging bookmark notifications into the primary Profile Notifications bubble that most users commonly interact with.
Do I need to make any changes to my forum?
The answer for the vast majority of admins will be “no”. There is no required change, the notifications for bookmarks will now be merged with the rest of the Profile Notifications, rather than being separate.
For a very small segment of forums, primarily ones with extreme levels of customization, this might change how your notifications are displayed if your code is relying on grabbing the bookmark notification bubble element off the page, since that bubble has been removed.
If you'd like to turn off these bookmark-related notifications, or adjust other notifications you receive, you can edit them: go to your Profile, then Edit Profile, then the Notifications tab.