As mentioned in the 2019 staff retreat follow-up , a priority for this year will be to revamp the notifications and dashboard system, as the current one is creaky with age and leaves a lot to be desired. This is something that will take time to create, and we would love to have your input as we plan …

yes, I think a grouping feature like with the notifications here in discourse… where ti says “5 others liked this post” or “5 replies to this topic”, and the ability to drill down to see each one if you want to

Not sure if this would fall under Feature requests or Bug Reports, so I’m sticking it in the General category for now. Something I’ve noticed on both the web and on the iOS app is that if someone includes a comment when suggesting an ID, the notification only says that they’ve suggested an ID. (In …

I agree that it would be nice to see a notification for situations where an ID+comment are posted together. To avoid too much clutter on an observation page I’ve been using an @username if I’m making a comment with an identification so that the user will get a notification for the username reference…

[image] chemistree: if someone includes a comment when suggesting an ID, the notification only says that they’ve suggested an ID Yes, I agree, and others have brought this up, too. I almost never look to see if there’s a comment when someone seconds an ID of mine. I would prefer to get a se…

Thank you @bouteloua for moving my post into this thread. I did a brief search for other notifications-related topics but somehow missed this thread of wonderful ideas (apologies for repeating what others had already said). I’m excited to see that the notifications system is getting upgraded. One t…

[image] chemistree: One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet in the notification wish-list is being able to control them by taxon. For example, I like to see notifications for confirming IDs for taxa I’m not as confident on, but I don’t need to see them for the umpteenth western sword fern I’ve id…

I was referring to identifications done for others, but it’s true, I don’t need those kinds of notifications for my own observations, either. Given how many observations some users have, I can definitely see why the ability to turn them off is appealing

[image] chemistree: I was referring to identifications done for others You can unfollow the observations of others on a case-by-case basis after making an identification.

Very true, but also kind of onerous. My point is that it’d be nice to have the option in settings do that automatically for certain taxa.

Sorry–that just didn’t sink in at first. I agree–that’s a good idea.

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There is a Feature Request to allow not following your own observations (so you wouldn’t get notifications) on a case-by-case basis, if you’re interested in that: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-a-way-to-unfollow-ones-own-observations/103

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