As long as these changes are 'opt in' then have at. I like my inbox. Mail arrives and I get a message that I have mail. I read it and reply. Simple and effective. Don't change the colors or fonts making it unreadable. Don't do anything weird and make it hard to navigate. In fact, maybe you should just step away from this idea entirely while you still have a user base.
Pretty much all the 'issues' I have have already been mentioned by various users, but I'll highlight what I agree with, for the sake of upping the numbers
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YES to the spam - thanks to this thread, I just discovered legitimate messages I received over a year ago but LJ had flagged as spam. I see no obvious reason why they would have been flagged and diverted to that folder, and that's three people who thought I was ignoring them.
And, on topic.. it's just aggrivating. There's one specific post I have made myself check fairly regularly, because that's the one I've noticed it happens on, most often. We had to edit the contact post to tell folks to PM us if they didn't hear from us within a day. Most often, it's because their comment was tagged.
I've been dealing with spam in my inbox for YEARS, between yahoo, hotmail, and gmail. Spam from LJ is at least spam I'd like to get.
Having legitimate comments being marked as spam is bad form, and there's got to be some way to adjust the filters on LJs end.
I 1,000% agree with this. Every time I comment in a friending meme and I try to post a gif (granted, this might be because I typically use tinypic to upload the gif), the comment gets marked as spam even though it's not, and then I have to repost the comment and usually just take the gif out. It would be nice if tinypic could be on an acceptable filter so that it doesn't get marked as spam in comments, since it doesn't get marked as spam when I use it to post a gif in an entry.
hmmmm, the few times I sent private messages, the received message disappeared after replying to it.... I would like to keep it just where it was! like an email, emails don't disappear from your inbox after replying to them *shrugs*
Does it actually disappear, or is it just minimised? In my inbox, messages I've replied to are greyed out and the text isn't showing - but the message header and sender userpic are still there. If you click on the little triangle to the left of the userpic, the message will expand.
I mostly use the inbox to read+write PMs. Some kind of threading so we can see a full conversation would be super useful. I don't really use it for anything else (I usually completely forget that I can see any comments on my entries here - I usually just read/reply to them in the context of an actual post)
I'd like to be able to easily look at all messages between myself and another user, whether via search or some other method.
Also, for messages that are already collapsed, I find that little tiny arrow you have to click to expand it again to be too small and not very obvious. I'd expect to be able to click anywhere on the message subject to be able to expand the message, rather than selecting it to mark it read/delete/etc
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And, on topic.. it's just aggrivating. There's one specific post I have made myself check fairly regularly, because that's the one I've noticed it happens on, most often. We had to edit the contact post to tell folks to PM us if they didn't hear from us within a day. Most often, it's because their comment was tagged.
I've been dealing with spam in my inbox for YEARS, between yahoo, hotmail, and gmail. Spam from LJ is at least spam I'd like to get.
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I 1,000% agree with this. Every time I comment in a friending meme and I try to post a gif (granted, this might be because I typically use tinypic to upload the gif), the comment gets marked as spam even though it's not, and then I have to repost the comment and usually just take the gif out. It would be nice if tinypic could be on an acceptable filter so that it doesn't get marked as spam in comments, since it doesn't get marked as spam when I use it to post a gif in an entry.
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Oh god noooooooo.....
Please leave mine alone, everything works FINE. The only thing that might be useful is the option to use HTML in private messages.
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I'd like to be able to easily look at all messages between myself and another user, whether via search or some other method.
Also, for messages that are already collapsed, I find that little tiny arrow you have to click to expand it again to be too small and not very obvious. I'd expect to be able to click anywhere on the message subject to be able to expand the message, rather than selecting it to mark it read/delete/etc
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