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I really hope y'all understand I'm trying to improve the experience here and in so doing make this a healthier and more attractive place to be.
I didn't want to be a squeaky wheel but you know what they say...
@TechConnectify I've seen you, and other highly-followed "fedizens", say that part of the problem is a lack of positive responses to drown out, or at least balance, the inconsiderate ones.
As someone who tries to be considerate, I also discard many of my responses because they don't add substance, and instead just "like" the original post and some responses I agree with.
I don't know how visible that is to you, though. Feels like the considerate people not feeling like there is something to 'splain at you about amplifies negativity, but more noise doesn't seem like a great solution either, and if we chide the chiders that isn't to me obviously helping either. Proverbial rock vs hard place I guess.
@mcdanlj likes are visible, but also kind of not. It's infuriating.
Honestly, notifications need to be stacked. They just have to be stacked. It is baffling to me that people don't understand this. Because right now, I get an individual notification for every single like which is overwhelming as it happens, and then you can't really keep track of that affirmation without going to the post and clicking on how many likes it has.
It's uh, not great! But I do see it. It's just clunky.
@mcdanlj either way, I appreciate your thoughts here. And the fact that you made me think through this particular part of it is highlighting another failure.
My understanding, or at least supposition, is that making likes less visible was deliberate. Trying to tamp down on the addictive nature of social media. I think that was a noble goal, but it makes them hardly useful
@TechConnectify It's annoying that the default platform doesn't group them at all, at least last I looked. I can't imagine how you can keep up at all.
I use elk.zone which at least groups chronologically adjacent post actions (likes and boosts). I doubt that would be enough yet to be useful for you; if I had your followers I'd want maybe hour-long buckets of activity grouped, not just chronologically adjacent. But at least someone is thinking about it as a problem worth addressing.
@TechConnectify I can't imagine for a moment that this interface would work at your scale. For a post that was popular at my scale, I still have dozens of post notifications, some of which are only a single interaction, and others that look something like the attached screen shots, from elk.zone and phanpy.social notifications UIs.
@TechConnectify @mcdanlj
Some forks currently have that on the roster of things to implement. Once a couple have, I expect there will be a back and forth and one implementation will become prevalent.
But yeah. It's a bit annoying as is.
