Alert Improvements by Xon 2.10.13

[Xon]

Just to be clear, the addon will automatically run the query if it's necessary?

Yes, so if the installer appears stuck you know why!

I do recommend using the CLI if you've got millions of alerts.

 

[Joe Link]

Yes, so if the installer appears stuck you know why!

I do recommend using the CLI if you've got millions of alerts.

Great, thanks for the info

 

[FloV]

Did something change with the latest update? Suddenly our users are complaining, that alerts are marked as read automatically when they open the popup.

 

[Joe Link]

Did something change with the latest update? Suddenly our users are complaining, that alerts are marked as read automatically when they open the popup.

Lots

Always a good idea to read update notes before updating.

 

[FloV]

Hehe, i know that a lot was fixed but i didn't assume that a default behaviour was changed.

 

[nocte]

Does anyone have a screenshot of the "Alert summarization" in action?

 

[zoldos]

Did something change with the latest update? Suddenly our users are complaining, that alerts are marked as read automatically when they open the popup.

I agree. I even went back to the previous version because of this. Not only that, but I really disliked the XF default action that removed the number of alerts still left, even if some were still unread.

I read the updates, but honestly, 2.8.22 has been working perfectly....

 

[Xon]

Did something change with the latest update? Suddenly our users are complaining, that alerts are marked as read automatically when they open the popup.

Ugh. I've got another update which was even more stalled which would allow configuring the 'auto read' functionality which was preventing this from happening.

 

[zoldos]

Ugh. I've got another update which was even more stalled which would allow configuring the 'auto read' functionality which was preventing this from happening.

No problem. I really appreciate your efforts!

 

[Alternadiv]

Should the version be showing as alpha 1 right now?

 

[Xon]

That add-on updater ignores the version string and bizarrely tries to reconstruct it from the hidden version_id value.

 

[zoldos]

That add-on updater ignores the version string and bizarrely tries to reconstruct it from the hidden version_id value.

 

[Xon]

Xon updated Alert Improvements by Xon with a new update entry:

2.9.1 - Bugfix update

• Fix "Alert summarization" option being disabled still showed user's preference options to configure it

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Xon]

Xon updated Alert Improvements by Xon with a new update entry:

2.9.2 - Bugfix update

• Require Standard Library by Xon v1.18.0+
• Fix alert summarizing only triggered on +25 unread alerts instead of the user-defined threshold
• Fix summary alerts in the alert pop-up would be pushed under the just read alerts as if it had been read a while ago
• Adjust "Alert summarize limit" option description text to better describe what a limit of 0 does (ie no limit)

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[FrancescoL]

I suggest a system that aggregate alerts like Facebook.
Example "User A, User Be and other 10 users has liked your content".

 

[Xon]

It already does something like that. It just doesn't list the first few users.

 

[nathanmiller]

Since upgrading this morning (I was a few versions behind), when clicking the Alert counter, they all instantly get marked as read - is there a way to disable this?

 

[Xon]

There is a per-user option "Alerts pop-up skips mark read".

This can be configured as the default for new users, and then setup enabled for everyone else via bulk SQL:

update xf_user_option
set sv_alerts_popup_skips_mark_read = 1;

 

[VBX Co]

Thanks for the update @Xon - having run the query some members are still saying their alerts are all being marked read.

I've checked their user account and it shows the skips mark read option is enabled (so the query appears to have worked), but I wondered if this could this be a caching issue maybe? Any advice on how to get it working for them?

 

[Xon]

It could be the alert summarization still, I'm currently rewriting those code paths which where largely unchanged since 2017 and are quite hard to follow/debug.