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wroot
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Sep 15, 2019

New mobile notifications are worse

A few days ago redesign happened (white bar at the top instead of older black one) and on mobile it now behaves differently (although on desktop it still works the same, so i'm puzzled why such discr...
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wroot
Silver Contributor
Dec 14, 2020
And now the same crappy mobile notifications system is on the desktop site. Click twice and go away from current page. Yeah, this is more convenient than just glancing at the notifications quickly..
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Allen
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Dec 14, 2020

wroot 

 

We made this change primarily to simplify the code base and speed up page load times. This was essential for the 'message' button because it was the primary cause of pages still loading slowly. Notifications could have stayed in the toolbar, and we made revert that if there is enough feeling about it, but we decided if we were going to change then lets go all in and collect feedback.

 

I am a little puzzled about the black vs white comment in your earlier post though Oleg.. this change today is the first change we have made to the notification system since 2017!

 

Let me know if you can share more Information. 

 

Allen

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    wroot
    Silver Contributor
    Dec 15, 2020
    My first post is from year ago and it was about website on mobile. I think i was talking about the whitebar you now see throughout the whole site with Microsoft logo in the middle.
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      Allen
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      Dec 15, 2020

      wroot 

       

      Ah understand, unfortunately we must remain consistent with the general UI of other Microsoft pages so moving to the white bar was always going to happen.

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        wroot
        Silver Contributor
        Dec 15, 2020
        I don't care about the color of the bar. I only mentioned it to indicate that redesign happened 🙂 Btw, fishing out notification emails from this site from Outlook.com Junk all the time is getting frustrating..