Forum Thread
New Feature Regarding Notifications
Forum-Index → Suggestions → Rejected → New Feature Regarding NotificationsAs being a Coder,I recommend that the new notifications must be refreshed without refreshing the page manually and with a slight animation like popup,etc.I mean,using AJAX or jQuery AJAX().You can get the script ONLINE!Even I have the script.Its given Below :
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
loadstation();
});
function loadstation(){
$("#|./notifications/area/").load("/target/page/");
setTimeout(loadstation, 30000);
}
</script>
It'll refresh all the notifications automatically in each 30 secs.(this much time because then the users will get some time to do something regarding that post).
Do you support me? :)
You could always refresh the page and be done with it- why the hassle of adding more code?
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Not only because in case of possible slow internet connection, it could happen that you never see the page fully loaded because it simply takes too long to do that .. and then it auto-refreshes all over again, but also because I would miss so many feeds/notifications because they'd simply slip through/I'd fail to notice when there's something new. So yeah .. no support.
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Also, with the page auto-updating, if I have it open in one tab, but am doing things in another tab, I lose the little number in the top right of the page. Which is not a good thing, as it means notifications go unintentionally ignored for minutes up to hours or even never seen at all.
This means that it would be almost impossible for me to actually get caught up. And, when I am home, at times my bandwidth is being eaten alive by my brother, which means that loading a page is hard enough as it is. Pages that auto-load things (like certain facebook pages, or the front page of this site) lag and crash at those times. I would rather not have this happen to such an important page of the site.
While I can see that the suggestion is made with good intentions, it has some serious drawbacks.