Here's a first stab at smallifying it

I'd be interested in killing the dashboard (replacing it with inbox for now) and then rethinking it as something completely different.

are the counts meant to be number of unread messages or number of messages in the thread? Either way I think they are out most of the time for me

I'll fix the unread counts today and maybe have a stab a thing that shows recent but read stuff as another page with another name

@richarddbartlett If you're thinking about making inbox a dropdown.. then think WIDE! I've been wanting to prototype a full width dropdown with both inbox and notifications in it.

@robertguthrie if we combine notifications and inbox, can we keep it all discussion centric (as opposed to the current notification system which is event centric)?

I keep coming back to the idea that the notification (and/or inbox) dropdown should be the primary means of navigation through the site, so I want one list item per page.

I'm imagining a list of discussions with new activity, with icons denoting new comments, votes, likes, and mentions.

Yea I'm really into a sidebar discussion navigation.

It would look like an email client with a left nav and a dropdown at the top to choose from:

• Inbox - just new and pinned
• Activity - the activity feed view
• Group you belong to - everything in this group
• Another group - ya again

We could also put the search input field up there and display search results as a panel too.

btw.. The activity feed/notifications view of things is still useful.. and a nice way to explore your information.. we're just sick of it right now.

Just want to share my inbox story from today...

THANK YOU for this feature! Today was really pressured and I had to carefully manage my time. So much of my work has Loomio at its critical centre... and by using inbox, I was able to zero in on the important discussions and groups I needed to focus on today, while remaining confident the rest would stay in my inbox until I had a chance to get to them. Last week this wouldn't have been possible and my day would have been much more stressful.

I hope you all know that there are dozens and dozens of groups that really rely on Loomio for what they are trying to do in the world and wouldn't function without it, and every single improvement you make with all your hard work makes a very real, tangible difference to people's lives. It can be the difference between getting the job done, and not. ...and many of the jobs that are being done are having a positive impact in the world.

So yeah, it might seem mundane to some people, but it really matters to me and I'm eternally grateful.

*It should be made clear that the items on the list are only unread items as I had to read through all the comments to understand that :)

*I have suggested this by email for group page (https://www.loomio.org/discussions/5075) so maybe it is not so relevant here, but as a new member I would like to know what each column means - I can guess, the title one, but is the date column - date created or date modified? Also maybe we could keep it consistent with Groups page and have both of them either having a date e.g. '3 Jul' or '4 days ago'.

*I wonder whether 'X' as 'Mark as read' is the best icon as mainly associated as close/delete. Then again if it is clearly stated 'Unread discussions only inbox' maybe it makes sense.

*Would be good to introduce pagination with a number of items per page (20-30?). When you are a new member to a group that has existed for a while, all discussions will be unread and the list gets quite 'scrollable'.

*Dropdown where you could choose one group only might help for previous point as well. Maybe choices like 'View all', 'Group1', 'Group2'...Again thinking about new members to more than one group.

Oh, and I wish I would have known that I need to Enable 'Text formatting' so you can see my bullet points as actual points :)

Also I cannot wait when this will be added to the top nav bar so I do not have look for this discussion every time I want to access it.

*My 2 cents about current Notifications - might be worth keeping it for now if I understood it correctly and it is planned to be removed.

Well this is a strange but good feeling…

Inbox is making it so much easier for me to get through everything on my normally overflowing Loomio to-read list.

Uh oh… now that I've reached this point I might actually have to go try to clear my email inbox (eep!) …no more excuse to procrastinate :p

This feature has changed my life.

@joshuavial and @alannakrause thanks for the praise. I love it.

Muting/leaving a discussion, seeing mentions, and a sidebar or dropdown format are things I'm super keen to spend a weekend on verysoon.

And... I'm pretty sure it's time for me to take a dive into angular..

@robertguthrie the accessibility session at #nethui has me questioning how well angular plays with screen readers?

@richarddbartlett I would guess that screenreaders read from the in memory DOM - in which case angular apps would work fine.

@robertguthrie any plans to make this the default home page?

I've completely ditched the current home page and now solely navigate by the inbox and the groups nav - I realise there are more features coming but surely this is better than what's up currently?

Same here... I sue inbox exclusively and haven't been to the old homepage since it was released.

@robertguthrie

@robertguthrie I'm noticing the counts on my inbox are often out - e.g. there will be an 8 next to the item in the inbox list but there is only one unread comment when I go to the discussion

@joshuavial yeah, it's broken (hence why it hasn't been released yet). Inbox has been Rob's feature and he's been away for the past 2 weeks. Should all be sorted out shortly though!

@robertguthrie Here's a mockup of the inbox showing a little more information:

@matthewbartlett cool!

The faces seem to dominate for some reason. Maybe they need to be a little bit smaller or with rounded corners or something? Also, what if there are lots of participants?

Hey @matthewbartlett thanks for that. I have so many ideas about inbox that I don't think I can constructively give feedback in this format right now.. Like the ideas though. Thanks

The faces make the inbox so much more interesting and welcoming.

@robertguthrie are you aware that the mark as read does'nt seem to be working?

No I wasn't @aaronthornton I'll look into it.

@aaronthornton @jonlemmon I've fixed the problem with mark as read: https://github.com/loomio/loomio/pull/920

Sweet. I just thought it was my browser being silly. Nice fix.

@joshuavial inbox comment counts should be correct now (and faster too)

@matthewbartlett @jonlemmon - I like the faces and don't find them dominating personally. If there are lots of people then maybe we could just show the top 6 contributors.

I love JV's idea and I think it's actually the same thing - all proposals show until you dismiss them.

@alannakrause thanks for the feedback... I think I agree with you.

The thing you seem to be unhappy with is:
Motions will not show in the inbox if you have voted on them.

This means they behave differently to discussions... because there is no voting on disucssions. I think this is unclear to users and not the best thing.

I'm very keen to bring in Muting, which would allow you to prevent a discussion/motion from coming back to the inbox even when there is new activity. But it would be a choice for the user, rather deciding they don't want to see the motion after having cast their position.

@robertguthrie i'm pretty sure motions also don't show if you have read the discussion (which I think is undesirable).

Hey product owner @richarddbartlett is this on your radar?

Ahhhhh! Just occurred to me that as part of our participatory design process with the community, the product owner should be reading through the feature ideas group regularly and picking out priorities. Duh! @richarddbartlett

@matthewbartlett that's 'product coordinator' please. As far as I'm concerned the problems with the inbox and dashboard are going to be resolved by the comprehensive new designs. Incrementing one in the direction of the other doesn't feel like a good use of energy.