Should notifications be categorised? / myLot

Brussels, Belgium

January 5, 2017 9:23am CST

I remebereme when I had that issue with bubblews. I would wake up every morning to see more notifications that I can handle. But then the admins came out with a brilliant idea to put notifications into categories based on their type. So there were separate notificationshower for liking, commenting and something else I forgot. Now I see more and more daily posts about mylot notifications. I believe if they were put into categories it would be easier to read them and interact with the right ones. Watch are your thoughts?

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inertia4

@inertia4 (27960)

• United States

5 Jan 17

That sounds like an idea. But I do like the fact that when we do reply to a notification, we can delete it from the list. That keeps it clean all the time.

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Shadi

@Madshadi (8840)

• Brussels, Belgium

5 Jan 17

Yeah that would also be nice.

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inertia4

@inertia4 (27960)

• United States

5 Jan 17

@Madshadi They already let us delete the notifications when were done. That is what I like. I think for right now the notifications are just fine.

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Shadi

@Madshadi (8840)

• Brussels, Belgium

5 Jan 17

@inertia4 I never really paid attention to the X button to delete them until now.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

5 Jan 17

We can select which notifications we wish to receive, so I feel any further categorising would be superfluous.

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Shadi

@Madshadi (8840)

• Brussels, Belgium

5 Jan 17

If you saw the way bubblews organised notifications you would have liked it too.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

5 Jan 17

@Madshadi What makes you think that I did not see the way that Bubblews organised notifications?

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Shadi

@Madshadi (8840)

• Brussels, Belgium

5 Jan 17

@Asylum because I wasn't talking about eliminating notifications but showing them all just in different categories. I imagine someone who is familiar with bubblews ' notifications system wouldn't have gave the answer you did

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Michelle

@infatuatedbby (94914)

• United States

5 Jan 17

I eliminated being notified of likes to reduce notifications

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Michelle

@infatuatedbby (94914)

• United States

5 Jan 17

@Madshadi I can see once I return back to the discussion , like now you commented on my response to you. I did like it and just changed last month since I got an overwhelming of notifications.

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Shadi

@Madshadi (8840)

• Brussels, Belgium

5 Jan 17

@infatuatedbby yeah I understand why you don't want to see the likes. Approximately how many notifications do you get now when you first open mylot.

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Shadi

@Madshadi (8840)

• Brussels, Belgium

5 Jan 17

I would still like to see who liked my comment.

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fishtiger58

@fishtiger58 (29820)

• Momence, Illinois

5 Jan 17

It could possibly be, but I just x out the likes and that makes things much more manageable

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Shadi

@Madshadi (8840)

• Brussels, Belgium

5 Jan 17

That sounds like an extra work but it's okay

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fishtiger58

@fishtiger58 (29820)

• Momence, Illinois

5 Jan 17

@Madshadi you do know if you don't x them out they won't vanish for 7 days. That's how mylot does it. Your notifications stay for 7 days then get deleted.

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Shadi

@Madshadi (8840)

• Brussels, Belgium

5 Jan 17

@fishtiger58 yes someone pointed it out to me today. I never scrolled down to check if my old notifications are still there

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Laurel (L_B)

@Happy2BeMe (99380)

• Canada

5 Jan 17

Just have to adjust your settings to what you would like to receive notifications about and what you don't want to see!

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Cassy Janine

@shantalclay (623)

• Baguio, Philippines

5 Jan 17

That would be a nice idea. Hopefully, mylot admins could consider the idea of categorizing notifications.

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Shadi

@Madshadi (8840)

• Brussels, Belgium

5 Jan 17

I don't know if they would read this. I just thought it's nice to see what others think about it.

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Cassy Janine

@shantalclay (623)

• Baguio, Philippines

6 Jan 17

@Madshadi , Yeah. It's nice to hear from others if what is their opinion about it.

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MysD

@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

5 Jan 17

I like them as they are. I have chosen which ones to receive and, as they come in the order in which they occurred, I know who is on when I am. For instance, when I get here in the morning I can choose to start with the most recent ones as I know those peoplw will be here to interact immediately and then get to the others that arrived earlier. The fact that they are not in categories is not a problem at all.

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sishy7

@sishy7 (27167)

• Australia

5 Jan 17

I never feel flooded by notifications on here although I opted to receive everything I can possibly get notified for. I check regularly and even in the morning I only get in the average of 20-30 notifications which I could easily go through in a very short time...