What's happening?
Our current notifications system has served the site well for many years but was starting to get a bit old and tired, plus it's not particularly easy to modify or scale up to fit the needs of the growing community. It really began showing its age in September 2020 when the system hit some database limits which required considerable maintenance work to get it going again.
To remedy this, we've built a brand new replacement system from the ground up with a focus on easier access to notification preferences, a cleaner design and full control of your notifications direct from the panel. While it may not look much different from what you're used to, it lays the foundation for a much more powerful and versatile system.
We've migrated all the notification types you're used to into this system, so you shouldn't be missing out on anything. In addition, it's now considerably easier to add new types of notifications to the site. So, if there are any events on the site you wish you were notified about let us know in the comments and we'll see what we can do!
You'll be able to get your hands on the new panel from 22nd March 2021, with the old system being switched off the same day.
As a quick summary, here are the things that are new (or different) with the upgraded system:
- Read notifications now remain in your notifications panel - As we've moved all controls for notifications into the panel, you'll be able to see any manage notifications you've already read. Here you'll also find controls to mark them unread or delete them.
- Quickly toggle notification settings - Just click the cog icon and you can change your preferences without needing to leave the page you're viewing.
- 90-day cleanup - One of the problems the old system had is that it kept notifications forever. Meaning inactive users were collecting more and more notifications they may never read or at least would be overwhelmed with when they return. We'll now be keeping notifications for 3 months and then automatically clear them from your panel.
- No more game-specific notifications - While this may come off as bad news for some of you, we've removed the ability to filter notifications based on the game site you're viewing. In a survey we ran in November 2020 ~75% of users did not use this option and the overall consensus was that it would be largely unnecessary if we allowed more granular control over notifications.
As time goes on we'll be iterating on the system to add new notification types and better controls for managing which notifications you receive. For now, we've replicated the "old" system functionality so it should feel both new and familiar to you.
What's the catch?
Unfortunately, the data used by the new system is incompatible with the old system. This means that all of your existing notifications will be permanently removed on 22nd March 2021. We're giving you a heads up now so you have time to manage any important alerts from the existing system before the switch-over takes place.
We're keen to see what you guys make of the new system and, as before, please let us know in the comments if you have any good ideas for new types of notifications to show. We might even be able to get some of the best ideas in place in time for launch!
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Following the initial wave of feedback, we've highlighted a few high priority issues with the new system which our developers are currently working on fixing.
Priority Issues List
Investigate cases where users are not getting any notifications at all(Complete)Restore notifications for "Comments on mods I'm tracking". (Fixed 02/04/2021 - see your preferences to toggle it on/off)Investigate issues with replies to comments in the Image and Video share.(Fixed 02/04/2021)Investigate missing notifications when some types of content are deleted from a mod page.(Fixed 07/04/2021)Fix the incorrect notification generated when a changelog is added by a team member on your mod page.(Fixed 02/04/2021)If you see an issue you're encountering above, please know that we are aware of it and don't need any further reports. I will keep this sticky post updated as work progresses. If your comment hasn't been mentioned in the list above, it's very possible we've noted it as an enhancement.
Once the bug fixing is out of the way we'll be going through the suggestions and requests you have submitted and compiling a list of priorities for Phase 2 of the release (and beyond). I aim to keep updating the pinned comments here with any new information on this.
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts with us and being patient while we iron out the kinks in the new system!
Now, put back the name of the games in the notifications and we're good (also, put back the notification if said content who is uploaded, like an image, is uploaded in the normal share, or in the supporter section).
I think I recall that the name wasn't displayed if you were already on the page of said game, but I'm not really sure.
And it was also absolutely present in the notification system from before the website update of last year, system who, as I repeated several times, was already perfect and did not need any modifications.
Anyway, it definitely was, I wouldn't waste my time complaining about the disparition of a feature if said feature didn't even exist in the first place, because the disparition of said feature is literally the very first thing I noticed when the update came.
Bring back the features of said system, and as I said, everything will be perfect, just like it already was before.
Also, I still don't receive any notifications from answers to my comments outside of images/video/mods, which I should.
As I said in the pinned comment, I'll keep everyone as updated as I can as we keep iterate through this project.
Anyway, it appears I was mistaken when I said the notifications were no longer grouper: they still are, and are still as of April 11th, and it is exactly as obnoxious, bothersome, tedious, and infuriating as it was two weeks ago.
Since the update, I have noticed a significant drop in views and endorsements of my images, and while it could be caused by the images themselves not being liked, it is much more likely than it is because if I post several times a day, or over several days, and the people who track me have not opened the notifications at the moment I posted, they only get a grouped menu which lead them to my profile where they will have to manually check themselves what's new, which is terrible design, as I already stated in an earlier post; and of course, it also means I do get grouper notifications for people I track, which makes much harder for me to see what they did.
As for now, I am refraining myself from posting, and limit my uploads at only one per day, because I know no one will look at it if they get grouper notifications.
This issue ought to be fixed as soon as possible, really.
This grouping of posts and then being directed to a profile page is just a complete waste of time.
Once on that tab, images are usually sorted from newest to oldest so it should be easy to see which ones are new.
1.)
Why are image uploades "summarized" or grouped together when there is more than one image upload from on author?
Example:
2.)
The link "https://nexusmods.com/users/33291605?user+images" (from the example notification above) does not work, it only goes to the authors "About Me" page.
Both of these have the consequence of looking for the uploaded images by yourself after browsing to one of the image categories where the images might be uploaded to.
fyi, this still keeps happening
I don't like marking something as read yet it stays there until I have to click twice to have it removed entirely.
Last step - one click delete of A notification and all is well :)
I used to solve that problem by opening the main panel that we no longer have and just deleting all notifications, but that's no longer an option, and I don't need a simple "Mark as Read" button.
drop down has two choices “Mark as Read” and “Remove this notification”. “Mark
as read” is already a click button, why can’t the drop down just be another
click button, “Remove this notification”. I would also prefer a Remove all notifications
option….Please!!
It isn't just that some specific comments are not generating notifications, I have not received a single notification of that type since well before I made that previous post, on either the new system, or the old page, and I track quite a few mods, and know for a fact there have been multiple comments on several of them at the very least. Your problem is bigger than you think!
P.S.
The old notifications page was meant to be shut down... is it possible that the functionality of it is dropping by stages? At the worst possible time?
And I for one check updates to my tracked content here on the game specific page - not on the old notification page. This is quicker for me to check than go manually to each mod pages. And if I am interested in the content I can just click on the link to redirect me. But yeah.... it is still tedious.
Huh, I did not know that included comments on tracked mods, as well as files and updates. Thanks. Still tedious, and each games has to be checked separately, but a lot better than nothing.
On a happier note -- I see the tracked mods notifications are now flowing in the new system (dropdown) as of this morning. Fingers crossed it will stay that way.
On average I'm getting maybe 2 comments notifications appear each time I log in but I don't think I've had a files update notification fail before :-/ I can see from the old notifications list that there are still a number of comments notifications not coming through and the ones I do get don't even appear to be consecutive on that old list.
Restore notifications for "Comments on mods I'm tracking". (Fixed 02/04/2021 - see your preferences to toggle it on/off)"Idk if this is working as intendet. Till some hours ago the pop up menu wasn't showing all notifications about new comments (I have comment notifications enabled) and I always had to check the https://www.nexusmods.com/notifications/ side if some are missing. Turn out 1/2 to 2/3 of them wheren't showing in the pop up menu. Means I had to go manually to the mods to see the new comments since I couldn't click on them on this side since the update.
But for some hours now this side won't update and I can't trust the new menu to show me all notifications because of how it worked for the last couple of days.
I know this is a work in progress system and therefor might take some time till everyting works and got fine tuned but I hope this gets fixed soon.
And there are some other (compared to that more or less minor) things, I would like to mention.
It already got mentioned here and there but the pop up menu in its current state is a bit user unfriendly.
1: Only 4 notifications at once (previously 5 in the old system) are shown and they get mixed up with already seen notofocations.
Please make it so that unseen notifications will always get shown ontop of seen ones, like before, and increase the number of shown notifications.
2: if I load more, It will again only give me 4 more and they might be mixed with see ones again.
Please change that too so taht I don't have to click 10 times to see all my notifications (if I forgot to delete them for some time)
3: If I want to delete older notifications I have to delete every one individually and also with two clicks. Means 30 clicks for 15 notifications.
Please add it to the todo list too to overthink this concept once more please. For example adding an "delete all seen" button or switching the "delete notification" and "mark as read" buttons positions or something like that.
4: The new notification system doesn't show me witch files of a mod got newly added to it. It just tells me that *some* files are new.
Please change that back too.
For everything else it was just a matter of getting used to the differences but I hope that these 5 things (mostly the reliability of the comment notifications) will get overlooked and updated soon. That would be nice.
Also, throwing my voice in with the "bring back the notifications page" crowd. Drop-down is clunky af on a PC, particularly with the "Load More" and having to click twice to completely delete notifs. Feels like the new notification system was designed by a mobile web designer for a mobile website... which is funny because the site itself takes forever to load on mobile, and often ends up not scrolling properly, so clicking something takes me to a mod that was further up or down the page, which just leads to me never using the mobile version of the site unless my modem's down.
The dedicated notifications page is on our list to discuss, however, we are changing it so "load more" calls 12 more notifications instead of 4 to reduce clicking.