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Re: Getting a list of unread subscribed postings [message #17796 is a reply to message #17781]

Mon, 19 April 2004 16:30

wfjmueller

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Ilia wrote on Sun, 18 April 2004 19:53

If you click on the "unread messages" link it'll display all the messages you have not yet read. You can then click on one or both of the "subscribed" links at the top, which will then only show the unread messages inside the topics/forums you are subscribed to.

I have seen and tried this, but the complete semantics of this dialog is not really clear to me. I observed, that after clicking on "unread messages" and than twice on "Subscribed Forums" all the topics/messages were marked as 'read'.

So it seems, that looking at "unread messages" has, at least under certain circumstances, the side effect that all is marked 'read'. Clearly, this way it is very easy to overlook something.

I'd prefer a logic which clearly separates two things:

showing the list of unread topics/messages
reading the content

and having a topic/message only marked read if step 2 is explicitely taken. In some sense step 1 gives just a list of tasks and doesn't change the state of the system.

In this spirit I wrote the initial proposal, to have a dialog similar to the 'subscription list' in the profile, combined with a colored indicatior similar to the 'unread PM' one.

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		Getting a list of unread subscribed postings By: wfjmueller on Sun, 18 April 2004 17:28
		Re: Getting a list of unread subscribed postings By: Ilia on Sun, 18 April 2004 17:53
		Re: Getting a list of unread subscribed postings By: wfjmueller on Mon, 19 April 2004 16:30
		Re: Getting a list of unread subscribed postings By: Ilia on Mon, 19 April 2004 18:02
		Re: Getting a list of unread subscribed postings By: wfjmueller on Mon, 19 April 2004 18:43
		Re: Getting a list of unread subscribed postings By: Ilia on Tue, 20 April 2004 19:27
		Re: Getting a list of unread subscribed postings By: wfjmueller on Tue, 27 April 2004 12:50

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