New PM Popups

Instead of Araes' feature request, I'm requesting that his PM privs be removed. That way he'll never have to worry about this issue coming up!

see, good programmers solve problems, but great programmers avoid them in the first place.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

I got a better solution than ramoth's monstrosity. Add a button to the pop up window that says "Mark as Read & Close". Then you can use the X if you just want to close the window but keep it unread, or click the "Mark as Read & Close" button if you want it to do such.

That's a bad solution, since it forces a user to think 'what if I don't want to "mark as read"?'

Considering that the pop-up promt already has the word 'close', 'open the message in a new window', 'go to my PM box', and 'close this popup' that's a lot of options for a user to consider, and all for a feature that only one person has asked for and a few people have stated would be confusing and unworkable for their jobs as moderators.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

I'm just offering a solution, not a UI redesign concept.

The problem is something with the user's experience. Your solution has nothing to do with the user's experience? I hope, for your employer's sake, that you only do backend work.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'm sorry that you think I have a vendetta against you. I don't. I'm saying that programmers who only think about what is programmatically possible* are thinking about less than half of the problem, and that giving solutions in such a situation is no more than mental masturbation.

That's not an opinion I keep special for you, Leno. Get over yourself.

* in their idealized world, without looking at the code base to assess what is possible, Mr. Bool-Line-Item-Assignment Araes I'm looking right at you

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm a web programmer but I have a strong interest in the user experience. It makes life infinitely easier if you make sites that people can understand at a glance, especially with something intentionally obtrusive like the PM notification popup.

What are you having difficulty with? I figured that "five options are more confusing than four" is pretty self-explanatory.

I was speaking idiomatically.

It's good that you know your limits and that you wouldn't tell someone to do something you yourself don't understand, but I feel I'm at the point in my career where I can safely say that a feature only one person requested is not a feature worth implementing.

Additional Spam:
t Araes: If you click on 'open this message in a new window', you'll be brought to the PM message itself. It is automatically flagged as 'read', since it's the same page you get if you were to click on the PM from the PM inbox. So really, this thread was for nothing but obnoxious programmer dick measuring.

hth,
Your Friend in Christ,
A. Lurker, Esq.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

1595 was my lowest score.

That's right. I took the SAT multiple times. Just for fun.

FELIPE NO

Well since you're so eager to tell us the parts of your life story that are flattering, why are you going for a master's?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?