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Provide an option to get some type of notification in Special:Notifications only
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Some people complain that they have too many notifications on wiki, where they fly-out can be overflowed. (A recent case in my mind about structured discussions.)

A way to solve that would be to provide a choice to have notifications on wiki displayed in the fly-out, and/or only in Special:Notifications. That option makes Special:Notifications as an inbox. It adds a third level of reading: alerts, notices, inbox.

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Notifications in inbox should be counted as regular notifications, but could be visible at the bottom of the notifications fly-out:

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Trizek-WMF created this task.Jan 15 2018, 2:38 PM
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Trizek-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 15 2018, 2:39 PM
Aklapper added a comment.Jan 15 2018, 3:58 PM

This proposal sounds like over-engineering.
Reminds me of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78357.

• jmatazzoni moved this task from Untriaged to Old Untriaged on the Collaboration-Team-Triage board.Jan 17 2018, 10:21 PM
• jmatazzoni closed this task as Declined.Jan 19 2018, 6:58 PM
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Thanks for this interesting idea but feels to use like trying to slice things too fine—like it might be a level of control that few want and meanwhile a level of complication that could confuse some.

Trizek-WMF added a comment.Jan 23 2018, 5:03 PM

That may need reconsideration in the future if the number of notification increases.

• jmatazzoni added a comment.Jan 24 2018, 4:57 PM

That's a good point Trizek. If, for example, Structured Discussions were made more generally available, research indicates that would significantly increase notifications.

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