Forum Discussion
Displaying unread messages
Its been 2 weeks, how much longer is it going to take to add this basic functionality?
MicrosoftHey Dean, I understand your frustration here, but we are working on a lot of improvements across the community as well as a rebrand. Currently, you can see unread messages here: https://network.office.com/t5/custom/page/page-id/Community-My-Dashboard or all up here: https://network.office.com/t5/forums/unreadpostspage/tab/thread. We're using an API call to display these. This isn't an OOTB feature so there is some custom work going into it to meet our community's high expectations. We will continue to deliver on this and the other requests and in the meantime we ask for your patience Dean.
MichaelHolsteI'm still waiting.
My involvement with this community continues to decrease, primarily because it takes too much time to find new content (:.
- MichaelHolste
Hey Dean,
We'll have some solutions out soon to improve this. I entirely agree it's too hard to 'stumble upon' need content. Among others, we're improving the feed, adding filters at the feed, community, and space levels, adding 'show more' to load more conversations, and making clearer pathways to new content. It's currently under development and should be out in one of the next 'sprints'.
It has been another 4 months, and I still cannot easily find unread items, will this ever be improved?
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- Yep, still no real improvement after almost a full year. I continue to be active out of necessity (direct product manager contact), not because I'm happy with this network.
All this pagination and page loading here makes me cringe every time.
Even a much longer (20-30 items, instead of 10) "My Feed" would be appreciated at this point.
I'm constantly missing out on AMAs if they are not announced somewhere else a week in advance. And let's not talk about mobile.- MichaelHolste
Hey Ivan,
I just replied with something similar to Dean on this thread but this is something that drives a lot of crazy and will be fixed soon. 'Endless scroll' on the homepage can lead to performance issues but we will have a 'See More' button added and a number of improvements elsewhere. We are also updating the individual spaces to have more conversations show before a click is needed. For many right now, the setting is at 10. What number would you like to see?
Thanks, but I don't seen how to view Unread messages on that page. It shows me Unanswered messages, but i have read several this morning and they still show up on that page.
It is BEYOND FRUSTRATING to continuously see the same conversations and posts over and over and over and over every session.
I fully recognize that there have been many improvements, but much of the functionality that has been improved, should have been in place on the first day. This software from Lithium is very poor in my opinion. I cannot ever imagine recommending it to any of my clients.
Between this lack of functionality and the absolutely atrocios UI, I'm going to have to stop participating in this network for a while. It is just too hard to use when compared to Yammer. It not enjoyable in any way shape or form.
- To see unread messages is only half of the problem, another half is to mark them as read. Quite time consuming operation.
