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Can you please stop changing the layout/navigation?
Conversations I've started and Conversations I'm following (I'd like to be able to follow a conversation, and be opted in to follow if I reply... as for monitoring a conversation, I'm never going to distinguish between something I reply to and something I want to follow even if I don't reply)... those are useful for sure. But those seem more like an indicator of my activity than an indicator of things I want to follow. It would be neat to see them integrated into the Notification Feed page.
However, that's still missing an easy way for me to jump into topics I want to follow. Some sort of dashboard (at the top of the notifications fee maybe) that lists my spaces and an indicator of # new conversations / comments / likes / mentions / answers / blog posts. I'd use something like that to "check in" as it were, instead of filling my inbox. Maybe selecting the space on the dashboard them would filter the feed to just those entries... and further selecting an indicator would further refine the filter. But then I could
I use "checking in" to mean... Anything going wrong in "my" communities for other people that might also be going wrong for me? Any questions I can answer for other people? Anything cool someone else has done that I can try? Any new product announcements?
It'd also be where I start my search for help on new queries of my own. Right now, there's no longer a way for me to easily get to a specific space /community to have my search results filtered based on what community I am in.
Honestly, now that I'm poking around, I realize there's a "My Communities" page, and I found I joined a few communities that I've forgotten about I wish I hadn't of forgotten. When I "favorited" spaces before, I thought I was signing up to be alerted. When I wasn't getting emails, I figured out how to do that for a few spaces. There's quite a few communities/spaces I'd like to be able to "monitor/check into" for which I'm not all that interested in being notified about.
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Thanks, I take it you do not feel that the area in your profile for 'Conversations I have replied to' and 'Conversations I have started' delivers that?
I am also taking it from your comments that the feed on homepage and the feed in each individual space doesn't pull this together in a way you feel is easy to dig into the conversations?
I am not going to give you answers on all these points today I will need to take them away and reflect on how best we can meet your needs.
Correct, Allen - basically, I'm missing something that ties it all together for me.
The "My Activity" section on my profile is good for me to find something I've done... and conversely good for me to find out what you've done (should I follow you? Can I trust your advice? What topics might you be able to answer on if I have a query I mention you in?). Those are great things, and I'd hate to lose them.
Nothing seems to provide for "here's what's going on in your spaces".. such as indicator of # new conversations / comments / likes / mentions / answers / blog posts.
The feed on the homepage doesn't pull that together, and neither really does the feed in each of the spaces. What's there isn't bad, but it doesn't really show me what's changed since I last visited. On the homepage feed, I'd like to see a representation of my followed spaces and (and on the homepage for each space) also some concise counters (above) that when a space is clicked (because I see a counter that says "9 new unanswered questions, 89 comments, 1000 likes")... bring me to the space's page... and then if I clicked a counter on a space's page, the feed would be filtered do that selection... that'd be very helpful.
FWIW, I like the icons and what they represent on the notification feed page. For each of those counters on each space, perhaps a way to say "notify me" (in my notification feed)... and another for "email me"
