https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54609
--- Comment #3 from Luis Villa <[email protected]> --- Brion: that's... interesting. So maybe the bug is: 1. doesn't work like any other notification system; or 2. preference label is misleading, since it says "when changed" and not "the first time it changes after you visit it"; or 3. the email's statement about this is completely unclear/not a good place to try to explain to a user that #1 is true ('There will be no other notifications in case of further activity unless you visit this page'); or 4. the email's other attempt to clarify this (link to "all changes since your last email") should be the *first* link, not the second, because that link is the one that actually contains the accurate/complete information that you should want to see. To focus on #1 for a second: if your goal is to reduce the # of inboxes you have to check, then you have to get *all* the notifications, not just some of them. Because likely the most common action will be: 1. Get the notification of a change. 2. Read, and decide the correct action in response to the change is "do nothing". 3. File/archive/mark read/delete as appropriate for how you handle your inbox. 4. Go back to #1. That keeps you entirely within your email for the most common use case - most efficient for anyone who has to/wants to read and process a lot of notifications. With this system, you add Step 2.5: leave your email by clicking on "all changes since your last visit" to make sure nothing else has changed, because you have no way of knowing whether or not something has happened without breaking out of your mail handling workflow. So for inexperienced Mediawiki users, it breaks expectations from every other notification system they've ever worked with; and for experienced mail handlers, it completely breaks workflow and forces you to swap back and forth between tools. If this is all by design, I suppose this is really just venting/WONTFIX, given everyone's change aversion and the work necessary to fix it. In the meantime, I'll chalk it up as yet another systemic inefficiency that makes me wonder how this thing ever got built :) And wait patiently for Flow. :/ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
