nekohayo
commented
11 months ago I think that instead of stacking up the usernames, it should try to list them in a string (or little avatars with hover tooltips, like in your screenshot from Elk) up to a handful (five?) on one line showing the latest 5 ones, and stuff all the rest into a ", and %d others." count string... And then offer the ability to inspect the detailed list in a separate window by clicking some meatballs menu on that notification, a bit like the ability to inspect the list of favorites/boosts when viewing an individual post outside the notifications view.
dilinger
GeopJr
Describe the request
Currently every like or boost or follow gets the entire post listed in a notification. Having a popular toot easily overwhelms notifications. Elk.zone solves this by combining likes/boosts for the same toot, and also doesn't display images for ones own toots, like so:
Quite a difference compared to Tuba:
I would suggest two things:
1) Don't display images when a user's own toot is boosted/liked. I wrote the toot, I know the content, I don't need my notifications filled with the same image(s) over and over. I'd suggest still continuing to display images for other circumstances (eg, someone replies with an image); just not for toots authored by the main user.
2) Combine multiple likes and boots for the same toot into one notification entry. It doesn't have to be fancy (like, I wouldn't try and combine them out-of-order or anything; if 3 people boost Toot A, then someone boosts Toot B, and then another person boosts Toot A, there's no need to show Toot A with 4 boots in the same entry; just showing a notification timeline of "3 boosts for A, 1 boost for B, and 1 boost for A" would be a huge improvement). It could be as simple as something like the following, which I just mocked up (somewhat awkwardly) in gimp:
I'm unsure if this should be an option in settings or just the default. I dislike Elk's super-concise notifications (I do want to see the names of people who boosted/liked, not just tiny profile pic images). But I think if the same information were retained while also removing redundant stuff (so implementing the suggestion to combine notifications, while not implementing the suggestion to not display images), there would be no need for a settings option.
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