Feature Request: Notifications

[Maker-Mark]

• Users should have a way of knowing when their post gets a comment or their comment gets a reply
  • Front-End: Build out a notification UI that pops down and can display how many unread alerts are present
• Back-end: Keep track of users' actions and organize them in a way that we can cache and keep track of other users' actions.

[mary060196]

Hello, @Maker-Mark ! I am trying to register for a free desktop + mobile notification system that will allow sending notifications on various kinds of browsers. It is called OneSignal, and it is free for at most 30k subscribers. What do you think about this?

[mary060196]

@Maker-Mark , I tried doing it with OneSignal, but it does not seem to work. I am missing something. I guess I will create an interface, as you said, that will be reachable from the main menu on the website, where the user will see a list of notifications, which are links to the corresponding posts and comments. Since the final exam is tomorrow, I'll begin working on it after the exam. Thank you very much!

[mary060196]

• Create notifications button on the Main menu
• Create notifications.html that shows the user's notifications. User will be redirected to the page once the button is pressed.

[mary060196]

Addressing Bullet Points: Bullet Point 1: Notifications button added. When there are new notifications, the button glows. Old (read) notifications shall be removed from the panel once the user sees them. Bullet Point 2: notifications.html file + CSS + JS files created. The UI currently contains two examples: (1) comment to a post, and (2) comment to a comment.

Front End part is thereby complete.

Plausible Next Steps for Full Integration of the Feature:

• Creation of notifications table in the Database
• Addition of Back End code that would access notifications information in the database and display it to the user.