Notifications

I recently noticed the "Your Notifications: 1 ▼" element on the right side under "You last visited..." near the top of each page.

Clicking the arrow there, I saw that I had one social group invitation. I clicked that link and was taken to the social group invitation page where I read the new invitation.

But all the indicators persisted, as if I had never read the invitation. And when I revisited the invitations page today, I saw no way to delete the invitation.

The usual way is for the message (notification in this case) to be flagged "read" once the recipient loads a page that contains its content, and for all related indicators to reflect that state.

In this case the "Your notifications..." element should either not be instantiated when I have no unread messages or at least show an unbolded value of "0". Better still, I should be able to delete notifications or at least mark them as "read".

Thanks,

Snaxster

Did you accept or decline the invite or only read it?

Tom M said:

Did you accept or decline the invite or only read it?

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Hi Tom,

Here is a screenshot of the page I saw when I went to read the invitation. I don't see a way to accept or decline there.

Thanks,

Snaxster

UPDATE: Now I see that if I click the title of the invitation, I am taken to the real invitation, where I can accept or decline.

The characteristic of a user interface (or other information appliance for use by humans) that enables users to avail themselves of its features is called discoverability. I think we have poor discoverability in this case.

Thanks,

Snaxster