BrianBrian Posted May 24, 2014 Posted May 24, 2014 Presently, windowed PM notification is off by default so it's up to the user to be aware of the small PM mail icon at the top. I think the windowed PM notification decreases the likelihood that PMs go unnoticed (which further hampers the already stilted board communication). Rather than leave it up to the user to dig through settings to find the more effective PM notification I suggest making the windowed notification the default from the start. As it stands, the first PM is from Stef which is easy to perceive as automated/spam/rhetorical which I think desensitizes the user to the small PM mail icon notification. That was my experience at least. Then for some months I would sometimes randomly click on the PM mail icon to find unread messages, despite there having been no perceptible sign of unread messages. I was not aware of the option to have windowed notifications and since I have started using that feature my PMing is much more streamlined, new PMs are automatically open and ready to read as soon as I log in or as soon as I receive them while on the board.What reminded me of this is that I'm PMing members who visit my profile and have common interests and some of them are new or infrequent board members, so if they miss a PM it might be a long while before they have an opportunity to notice it the second time, which won't be likely if they don't use the PM option very much, and being new or infrequent would suggest they don't use the PM feature much, making it that much more important for them to see them first shot.
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