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New "Alert Notifications" feature
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Joel
TS Technical Admin
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Yeah, the "toaster" notifications (i.e. the single grey boxes that fade in and out after 10 seconds in the top right of your browser) don't mark the notifications as read unfortunately, because you might not have actually seen them.
It will mark everything read when you click the
icon.
Also as an aside too, I've had a couple of people ask me if we can have Facebook style notification count in the page title (so it shows in your browser).
The simple answer is no as it wouldn't be very helpful with our system. The longer explanation is that in order to reduce demand on our server, the notification system stops checking for notifications when you stop looking at the page. If you flick into another tab, or another application, or even "lose focus" of the window, then the notification system stops checking.
This is to stop people accidentally leaving a window open for TS and having it refresh and poll the server for data every 60 seconds for potentially hours... days... weeks on end
So having page title numbers wouldn't be terribly helpful as it would only update when you look at the page anyway
It will mark everything read when you click the
Also as an aside too, I've had a couple of people ask me if we can have Facebook style notification count in the page title (so it shows in your browser).
The simple answer is no as it wouldn't be very helpful with our system. The longer explanation is that in order to reduce demand on our server, the notification system stops checking for notifications when you stop looking at the page. If you flick into another tab, or another application, or even "lose focus" of the window, then the notification system stops checking.
This is to stop people accidentally leaving a window open for TS and having it refresh and poll the server for data every 60 seconds for potentially hours... days... weeks on end
So having page title numbers wouldn't be terribly helpful as it would only update when you look at the page anyway
Funky_Monk
TS Member
Very snazzy - I'm impressed it's a very nifty feature.
Thanks guys.
Thanks guys.
Joel
TS Technical Admin
- Favourite Ride
- Closed season on TST
Bear said:
I spent 2 hours explaining to you on Facebook that such a system wasn't available 3 years ago, and is only available now at cost rather than a free add-on! I saved advertising pennies for this!
lolI'd tell you to go away impolitely but unfortunately this isn't the Tavern
Its a great idea! Unfortunately I havent had any notifications *HINT* yet though, but like I said, its going to be a million times easier to keep up with all posts!
(Thanks for thanking lol, it works really well!)
As well at the floating notification at the top, maybe there could be a sound? It would really help, especially for those who browse other tabs while still on tst!
(Thanks for thanking lol, it works really well!)
As well at the floating notification at the top, maybe there could be a sound? It would really help, especially for those who browse other tabs while still on tst!
DiogoJ42 said:
I believe Joel explains how to do this here. Not really sure though as I've not tried it myself.
Also - when you reply to posts, or start a new topic, if you click the "Attachments and other options" link at the bottom of the compose window, you'll see a new option for adding alerts for that topic, like so:
Ticking this option will send you notifications if someone replies to your post or thread.
You can also select what type of notification you receive by clicking the "Notify" or "(Un)notify" button on a topic - this will show the options of having no notifications, email only, alert only, or email and alert.