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I'm now inspired to follow more people in order to bolster my feed. Loving it! Is there a Chrome extension?
Maker
we have a fairly simple but it lacks notifications and a lot of other functionality we'd like to provide. created mockups for a much-improved extension that we're working on now. It's going to be awesome. 😄
link to said mocks?
Maker
here's a sneak peek: My favorite part: search 😉
hmm, yeah. I need to bake native PH search into my Alfred workflow. I use it dozens of times a day already.
A cool thing down the road may be to opt in to getting notified when products hit x# of upvotes. If PH ever adds category tagging, opting in to notifications of category-specific products could be interesting as well (ex. sports, news, podcasting, etc)
Hunter
+1 on both ideas
Maker
great ideas, Ryan. More active people (like myself), are encountering notification fatigue, largely because of the abundance of upvotes. Grouping these into "milestones" makes a lot of sense.
I can't even imagine what your notification feed looks like! haha But I think as long as most of the notifications are optional to the user, it's a win-win.
I'd like to know if the founder gets in the comments for something I voted on.
Hunter
+1 here too
Maker
I hadn't thought of that one! I like it. Any other notification types tickle your fancy?
If Ryan comments on something you posted :)
Maker
I wasn't planning on posting this but great idea, . Would love to get everyone's feedback! Here's a screenshot of my feed from last night: Our goal is to give people a new way to discover products and connect with others in the community. You'll receive notifications when people reply to your comments, people you you follow post a product, and others upvote products you've posted. Obviously, this is very basic and we have a lot of ideas on how we can add more useful (hopefully delightful) notifications soon. I'll hold back from sharing our plans too much because I'd love to hear what you all think. 😄 P.S. credit goes to , , and for this one 🙌
Hunter
so why make the change? And where'd you look for inspiration? Seems like it'd be nice to 'like' comments from the feed.
Maker
good suggestion. The previous notifications feed was less usable. Jumping back and forth between the sliding pane and notification feed was awkward. Furthermore, it didn't give us as much real-estate for other types of notifications. What types of notifications would you want to see, Derek?
Hunter
META. Comment here to test it out!
Good start! When scanning the list, I feel like the difference between a post/upvote is too subtle. In order of priority, I care about replies most, then new posts and upvotes.
agreed. have spoken before that I think they should be split up
There's a little orange dot that is next to Activity for new notifications, is that the only indicator for new notifications/activity now? Any thoughts about an on screen notification in the top right, a la the built in OS X notifications? Also, hot keys to switch between Home, Activity, and Collections (would make me feel bad ass, like hitting "/" for search). Activity's orange underline is missing when I'm on the Activity page.
I'd also like to be able to "follow" collections and get notified of new additions to them.