[PC] Inbox "New Message Flag"

by **MoB Deadly** on Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:23 am

Concise description:

When you get a New PM you get a notification on your navigation that looks like the photo below. If you click your inbox but do not actually click on the message, the notification still goes away. I would like the notification to stay until you actually click to read the message.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

More Intuitive: Your inbox is like email, the notification should not disappear until you actually click and read it
Less Forgotten PMs: There have been instances where I have 4-5 new messages and I normally handle them 1 by 1 instead of reading them all at once. Sometimes I forget that I actually did NOT handle a message because I got so far sidetracked working on another. (I can't imagine being a mod handling loads of PMs)

by **IcePack** on Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:43 am

+1 please

by **BGtheBrain** on Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:02 pm

*****

by **hmsps** on Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:07 pm

I think this is a cracking idea

by **dwilhelmi** on Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:01 pm

Yes, please, do this. I have been bitten by this far too many times.

by **Iceni** on Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:16 pm

Good idea.

by **agentcom** on Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:25 pm

Yep, I've thought this would be a good thing for a while. I do not know whether this is a phpbb thing or something CC can do (feels like the latter to me, but what do I know?).

On a related note (but for another suggestion), I'd like the ability to mark PMs as unread, but I suspect that is a phpbb thing.

by **chapcrap** on Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:17 pm

Yes to this.

agentcom wrote:On a related note (but for another suggestion), I'd like the ability to mark PMs as unread.

And yes to this.

by **QoH** on Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:27 am

PLease add this!

by **patrickaa317** on Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:33 pm

I don't think I agree. I have 8 "unread" items in my box now and it's because they are part of a chain or junk that I don't care to read. I don't want to have to look at the side say (8 new). I know I could delete them but you could also read them once you click on inbox.

by **MoB Deadly** on Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:44 pm

moar support plox

by **nicestash** on Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:40 pm

Nothing worse than being forced to click on a message just so it'll stop bothering you

by **agentcom** on Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:26 am

nicestash wrote:Nothing worse than being forced to click on a message just so it'll stop bothering you

If you are being serious, and you wish that you didn't have to click on messages at all in order to not be aware of them ("bothering you"), then that would be a completely different suggestion going the complete opposite way of this one.

If you are being sarcastic, and you don't think that people should complain about having to click on something in order to not be aware of it ("bothering" them), then you've kind of missed the point of this suggestion.

Or maybe I'm just tired. But I cannot figure out what you're trying to add here.