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steveinthecity TCBF Member Joined: October 2016 Posts: 5,120	Strange Things Aug 5, 2017 12:48:01 GMT -8 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steveinthecity on Aug 5, 2017 12:48:01 GMT -8 Aug 5, 2017 1:43:53 GMT -8 Bats said: Aug 4, 2017 12:25:09 GMT -8 steveinthecity said: The Blue Bear kept me off the forum for several hours this morning. Don't diss my DC Bear
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Bats
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Strange Things Feb 28, 2019 8:46:28 GMT -8

Post by Bats on Feb 28, 2019 8:46:28 GMT -8

JARVIS/JARVIS's Assistant,

Why do all notifications now appear under "Profile" rather than "Bookmarks" or "Recent Threads"? I would prefer to just have the personal notifications under Profile, please, and return Bookmarks etc to their original format. Thanks.

To clarify, most of what I say shouldn’t be taken too seriously...

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Strange Things Mar 1, 2019 15:47:53 GMT -8

Post by J.A.R.V.I.S. on Mar 1, 2019 15:47:53 GMT -8

Feb 28, 2019 8:46:28 GMT -8 Bats said:

JARVIS/JARVIS's Assistant,

Why do all notifications now appear under "Profile" rather than "Bookmarks" or "Recent Threads"? I would prefer to just have the personal notifications under Profile, please, and return Bookmarks etc to their original format. Thanks.

I share your preference. Unfortunately, this is a recent change from Proboards which was imposed on all forums.

Feb 22, 2019 at 2:05pm

Changing Bookmark Notifications

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.

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Strange Things Mar 2, 2019 0:35:47 GMT -8

Post by Bats on Mar 2, 2019 0:35:47 GMT -8

Mar 1, 2019 15:47:53 GMT -8 J.A.R.V.I.S. said:

Feb 28, 2019 8:46:28 GMT -8 Bats said:

JARVIS/JARVIS's Assistant,

Why do all notifications now appear under "Profile" rather than "Bookmarks" or "Recent Threads"? I would prefer to just have the personal notifications under Profile, please, and return Bookmarks etc to their original format. Thanks.

I share your preference. Unfortunately, this is a recent change from Proboards which was imposed on all forums.

Feb 22, 2019 at 2:05pm

Changing Bookmark Notifications

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.

Thanks

That's really gonna mess with my head

Last Edit: Mar 2, 2019 0:36:41 GMT -8 by Bats

To clarify, most of what I say shouldn’t be taken too seriously...

Post by steveinthecity on Aug 5, 2017 12:48:01 GMT -8

Post by Bats on Feb 28, 2019 8:46:28 GMT -8

Post by J.A.R.V.I.S. on Mar 1, 2019 15:47:53 GMT -8

Post by Bats on Mar 2, 2019 0:35:47 GMT -8