Notifications have gone weird
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@ben_lubar So where are they?
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@RaceProUK they're still in the database. They simply aren't shown because the code to generate the URL was moved from showing notifications to generating them.
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@ben_lubar said in Notifications have gone weird:
They simply aren't shown because the code to generate the URL was moved from showing notifications to generating them.
While that is a good change (and should make the notifications dropdown much faster), why weren't the old notifications migrated to the new format?
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@RaceProUK said in Notifications have gone weird:
why
I think the idea was that notifications get deleted after 7 days anyway so it wasn't worth the effort.
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Ever since the update I see one notification, sort of...
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@ben_lubar That'll be fun for people that skip a couple of days around the update, expecting to have a stack of notifications built up
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@ben_lubar said in Notifications have gone weird:
You really don't get it, do you?
Explain it to me.
@ben_lubar said in Notifications have gone weird:
The notifications weren't deleted.
They disappeared from my screen.
Any "defense" you come up with for that is arguing semantics or you being a pedantic dickweed.
The fact that the notifications existed in the database but weren't displayed to the user actually makes this bug worse, not better. It means they were deleted for no reason at all except developer incompetence.
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@ben_lubar said in Notifications have gone weird:
I think the idea was that notifications get deleted after 7 days anyway so it wasn't worth the effort.
Why wasn't testing the link destination worth the effort? By clicking it at least once before committing the code? Explain that one, O Lord of Shitty Software Defense.
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@blakeyrat the link destination went exactly where it was programmed to go.
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@ben_lubar Fuck off, Ben.
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@blakeyrat said in Notifications have gone weird:
he's still engaging in bad development process by acting on it without updating the open issue.
Sure.
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@ben_lubar said in Notifications have gone weird:
it wasn't worth the effort.
That's easy for him to say. He appears to have been wrong, as far as the users are concerned.
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@ben_lubar said in Notifications have gone weird:
@RaceProUK they're still in the database. They simply aren't shown because the code to generate the URL was moved from showing notifications to generating them.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to leave the code in both places, for at least a week, so that the old notifications could still be displayed until they fell off the database?
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@ben_lubar said in Notifications have gone weird:
the link destination went exactly where it was programmed to go.
Yes, it was just not where it should go.
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@FrostCat said in Notifications have gone weird:
Jump to 26:00 or so, if you want, to see it.
The joke worked much better in the video
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I just clicked "Mark all notifications read" and the unread number went from 11 to 30.