Title says it all: when I wake up to 100+ notifications, I don’t want to manually open each in a new tab. Is there an easy way to open them all? It’s especially annoying when most of them get error 429 “too many requests”.

no, that other thread contemplates what could be done if the notifications system was completely overhauled. i’m contemplating here would could be done with the existing pieces available to view notifications / observations one way or another.

Hm… I really don’t know. I think my original method suits me for now. Most of my issues stem from bugs that staff have said will be fixed in an update.

My reason is the same as zdanko’s: If it is a comment, I want to read the comment and perhaps reply if I feel the need to. If it is an ID, I want to know if they disagree with me, are refining my ID, or are adding a coarser ID. The notification feed won’t let me see the full comment. It won’t l…

ok. then why try to open 100 or even 50 up all at once? what’s wrong with opening up one by one?

[image] natashataylor: It won’t let me know what their ID is in relation to mine (which may not be a problem for a common species observed recently, but a rare one of unknown genus, or observed months ago?). I agree. The main thing I want to see in a notification is whether my ID has changed …

[image] saturnring: There is no indication as to which have been opened up already In my browser it underlines the text of the notification that was last clicked.

[image] saturnring: There is no indication as to which have been opened up already, the notifications page doesn’t remember where I was last i think of the Activity feed in the Android app as the easiest way to go through a lot of (or old) notifications (identifications + comments only) one b…

[image] pisum: ok. then why try to open 100 or even 50 up all at once? what’s wrong with opening up one by one? On the website, once I click in the notifications icon at the top of the page, iNaturalist “forgets” which notifications I have clicked on, so if I don’t open all the ones I care ab…

[image] sullivanribbit: On iOS, the Activity tab only clears the notifications that I actually view, which is much better. But I prefer using the website most of the time due to much larger screen, etc. I didn’t know that the ios app was better at that than the website, so thank you for that …

I presume, since the order feels random, and seems to shuffle and resort - if there has been multiple engagement on one post - it sorts back carefully, slotting in each engagement as it happened. And then dumps out of the sequence - what - the one I clicked to open in a new tab? I wish we could - …

Is there an easy way to open all notifications?

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zdanko August 31, 2021, 12:12pm 21

In my browser it underlines the text of the notification that was last clicked.

Is there a feature I can use to find ID's I've made in the past, but that someone has disagreed with since?

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Is there an easy way to open all notifications?

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