My Updates tool needs some work

SmokingPuffin·8/1/2014, 6:17:12 PM·6 votes·352 views

When I click on "all" in the "My Updates" page, it ends up taking me to the homepage of the boards, rather than showing me any updates. That doesn't sound right. I wonder if this is happening to other people or just me.

The unread updates feature looks good, but I don't like that it removes updates from the list after I've seen them once. The failure mode is as follows:

  1. Go to my updates, see 5 updates
  2. Click on one to go to its thread
  3. Go back to my updates, the other 4 are no longer displayed as unread updates

I think updates should work like emails -- they should only be marked as read if you have clicked on them or hit some "mark all updates as read" button somewhere.

Last up, a feature request: I'd like to be able to see updates from a particular period of time. Last day, last week, last month, that sort of thing.

2 Comments

Sir ArmaMalum8/1/2014, 6:18:58 PM1 votes

good feedback +1

Can't the 'all' bug is happening to me though, think it may just be you sorry :(

Daen8/1/2014, 6:34:26 PM1 votes

Generally speaking, the New Post and My Updates features don't work properly together from my experience. Threads with new comments can still display the fact they are new even if a user has clearly looked at them, and if you clear the New icon from threads they are still considered unread in the My Updates window.