The discussion revolves around improving the notification dismissal experience by allowing users to dismiss only non-important notifications. seanblue suggests adding a third button to dismiss non-important notifications while preserving important ones, such as reminders. sam proposes a clearer alternative: a confirmation dialog with a checkbox for dismissing important notifications, which seanblue finds preferable. mcwumbly notes that dismissals are already scoped to the selected tab in the new notifications menu and agrees to keep the topic open for community input. The conversation also touches on a potential new feature for dismissing individual notifications, which mcwumbly suggests be discussed in a separate topic.
I often use the Dismiss button to dismiss all my notifications when I see they are just likes and I already know (or don’t care) what the likes were for. This saves me from having to dismiss them one at a time by opening up each notification. However, when I have an important notification (a reminder in this case), my only choices are to open them one at a time or also dismiss the important notification.
It would be nice if there was a third button in that popup to just dismiss the non-important notifications. I don’t know what wording to use, but something like this.
If I remember correctly, this occurred a site which just switched to the new notification menu. Are you saying that the dismissals are scoped to the selected tab? It never even occurred to me to try that. I rarely have more than a few notifications, so I haven’t had much reason to use the tabs.
Personally I like Sam’s suggestion (much cleaner than mine). That said, this was a very light suggestion anyway since I also rarely have “important” notifications. Just figured I’d bring it up since I ran into it.
Slight tangent, but I personally would find more use in being able to dismiss individual notifications, similar to a feature Facebook has. Should I open a new topic for that?
Sure, I think we can keep this topic open and see what others think. If we can agree on the design, perhaps it is a candidate for a community contribution. @awesomerobot any thoughts on the proposal Sam made above?
