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8/24/2014 11:11:34 PM
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Let's Fix PMs- Huzzah Webteam!
So as of the site update a few days ago, I now receive PM notifications again on my phone. It's awesome, though admittedly I preferred the Septagon notification symbol to the Tricorn. But here's the thing... I'm getting dozens of them. So why is this in #community instead of #help? Because the problem is that this isn't a glitch- this is a feature. A feature that is driving me insane. Let me explain.
I run a private group. It's closed membership- each person needs to be accepted. So any time somebody joins the queue to get in the group, what do I get? You guessed it- a notification in my PMs. Since the Beta site update last month I've gotten 513 PM notifications- separate messages not new ones for each reply. How do I know this? Because the number hasn't gone away in a month. Of those 513, probably around 20 are from the last two days since the mobile notification system starting working again. And it's annoying.
I have it set to give me mobile notifications when I get a PM- something I would like to make use of instead of having to disable it. But I'm being bombarded with 'X requests to join your group' PMs on my phone to the point where this feature is quite literally unusable for me. Hell, I can't even FIND PM conversations I'm having because they get buried under all these group messages.
So. I was told site suggestions go in #community. So what am I suggesting? I'm asking- begging, really- that group join requests are removed from PMs. Or at least make this a feature I can toggle off. If I want to see my group queue, I will go to the group. It's nice to have a reminder as an option, but it's not nice to be completely unable to view my PMs and to not be able to have mobile notifications without including those. And this is by design! If anybody has any similar PM troubles, please do share them. And webteam... it'd be real swell if this were something in the works.
On an unrelated side note, still would love if admins of private groups could use all the admin powers instead of limiting it to whoever is marked as the founder. It's really messing up my jam.
Cheers.
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Alas. I have been broken. I just can't stand the phone beeping for group membership anymore. This feature is now unusable to me, and I am finally disabling it after another 70 beep since this thread was made last week. I implore the webteam to change this. Now, someone might say 'but burrito, group invitations being in your PM are there FOR people like you!' But if the people like me find it annoying and it actually makes parts of the website inaccessible (as in I cannot find PMs longer than hours since their last post), then what's the point? Having group requests go in both your notifications and PMs serves nobody. There's no reason for the request to open a PM channel with all the admins- they can PM an admin themselves if they want to. And I'll tell you- 99% of the time they never send a PM anyway. I beg the webteam to take group join requests away from the PM area. I'd like it if they were even removed from my notification area, but I'd settle for PMs at this point since that's actually making the PM feature unusable to me.
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You should just have one notification that says, "You have x number of members wanting to join your group"
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The notifications keep coming. Where are Hal and Gosset? :(
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2 RepliesEdited by Tom T: 8/24/2014 11:43:36 PM... I'm pretty sure this feature already exists. Go [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/profile/254/12809#context=settings&tab=notifications]here[/url] and uncheck those that bother you in the left column (the one with an envelope above it). Should solve the problem. Edit: Oh wait, that's email. How annoying. So unchecking all the available columns does nothing to solve this?
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5 RepliesI think we should get more notifications per request, like 10 per request or so.
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If people need someone to play with hit me up and add me! PS4! isucki
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[quote]I run a private group. It's closed membership- each person needs to be accepted. So any time somebody joins the queue to get in the group, what do I get? You guessed it- a notification in my PMs. [/quote] Samething here, tried turning it off, not succesful.
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So this is why you insist on making new group PMs all the time. I will side with you on this. For once.
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2 RepliesCompletely agree. As an admin in Primeguard, I can't tell you how furstrating it is to now have to clear out my inbox on a daily basis. Not to mention the frustration carries over to the mobile app. Great idea, and useful for sure; simply needs a toggle.
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I concur.
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That sounds like a serious problem for anyone in charge of a group. The more customization options for notifications the better. On a slightly unrelated note how are the groups functioning now? I know they've been significantly nerfed twice since the b.next update but I don't know how much worse they are from a manager standpoint.
