Ideally you would be able to toggle between threaded/chronological message view.
And as others have stated: a standardized mailbox after modern standards would go a long way. And I'm not talking about an app-like gui, but about the basic features. People can customize how it looks themselves, from the squarest .txt to the bubbliest of bubbly google-watch-custom-hell.
Please display more than 10 items per page. I currently have nearly 1900 messages; it will take me days just to delete all of them. I had to turn on a message for every comment because email notifications were extremely unreliable, and because often I am without access to my actual email to see comments.
As others have said, let it act like a real email inbox: the entire list of messages, which will open below (or to the side) when selected. Threading is fine for some things; it would be nice if it was optional. A list of folders in the otherwise wasted space to the left. Maybe even rules to move community notifications into particular folders.
Also, please show the actual number of items in the inbox in the bar across the top. 99 is just not many, particularly when there are no folders. And the Inbox is the only record of private messages, since the text is not in email notifications.
And the Inbox is the only record of private messages, since the text is not in email notifications.
Now that you mention this, I know it is not the feature currently under consideration, but I would really like to get the text of PMs in the body of email notifications!
When are you going to get the message: IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!!! You keep changing things and rarely for the better.
I ALWAYS read journal entries from my Inbox because my friends page is too busy and it takes too long to weed through what I want to read and what I don't.
If you want to change something, make the personal message feature more useful. Add clickable URLs, italics, bold, spell checking, etc. But PLEASE don't mess with the Inbox.
Maybe. I suppose there are changes that please some users, but there have been very few "improvements" that I've found useful. My biggest gripe is that they keep adding things without fixing the things that don't work properly.
I can't remember the last time I used my inbox. Must be several years at least.
I'd rather work be done on making LJ functionality across the areas most people use every day simpler and more intuitive, stable and interesting, and make adding pictures as easy and as fast as it is for Tumblr (or make cross-posting from Tumblr - and other places - intuitive and easy). How about looking at what makes the popular blogging platforms so popular and incorporating some of that magic here?
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And as others have stated: a standardized mailbox after modern standards would go a long way. And I'm not talking about an app-like gui, but about the basic features. People can customize how it looks themselves, from the squarest .txt to the bubbliest of bubbly google-watch-custom-hell.
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As others have said, let it act like a real email inbox: the entire list of messages, which will open below (or to the side) when selected. Threading is fine for some things; it would be nice if it was optional. A list of folders in the otherwise wasted space to the left. Maybe even rules to move community notifications into particular folders.
Also, please show the actual number of items in the inbox in the bar across the top. 99 is just not many, particularly when there are no folders. And the Inbox is the only record of private messages, since the text is not in email notifications.
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Now that you mention this, I know it is not the feature currently under consideration, but I would really like to get the text of PMs in the body of email notifications!
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I ALWAYS read journal entries from my Inbox because my friends page is too busy and it takes too long to weed through what I want to read and what I don't.
If you want to change something, make the personal message feature more useful. Add clickable URLs, italics, bold, spell checking, etc. But PLEASE don't mess with the Inbox.
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I'd rather work be done on making LJ functionality across the areas most people use every day simpler and more intuitive, stable and interesting, and make adding pictures as easy and as fast as it is for Tumblr (or make cross-posting from Tumblr - and other places - intuitive and easy). How about looking at what makes the popular blogging platforms so popular and incorporating some of that magic here?
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