Community notification centre for likes, mentions, quoted replies, poll votes, best answers

So many good points in this thread! Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts. 

Agree that a notification icon would be incredibly useful for our members as well. I would agree with the Facebook analogy - many social platforms (LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, etc.) have notification tabs that help members see where they are mentioned and what new topics have been commented on. It would be great if there’s an easy to so consolidate this information, since getting emails can be pretty taxing. 

One of my community members (an Advisory Council member, in fact) gave us feedback that he ignores the notification emails, because he doesn’t think its useful to open each email just to find that it’s not a topic he particularly cares about. It would be easier if he could see it all in one go, and choose (based on title/content) what to engage on. 

I think for me as well, it would be extremely helpful to have a dedicated page where all the notifications can go, as well as having a pop-up notification centre like Atlassian does, such as these examples.

I’ve gotten pretty used to that way of doing things because I can just leave one page open somewhere and it refreshes itself anytime anything interesting happens. But at the same time, still have direct access to it from anywhere without leaving the current page.

Any news about this idea?

I would welcome this feature so much. Some Super Users turn of notification mails because it's spammy, but a notifications a la FB or something would be less so. Like some said: this should be a no brainer.

This is becoming more and more important. We want to keep users on the platform when it makes sense, they shouldn’t have to go check their emails to see if they got a response to their topic, have been quoted, got a post marked as best answer, or mentioned in the platform. And most importantly, there’s no way to see if they got a like on their post, unless they find it back somehow through the community or their profile.

InSided as a platform is very, very strong, but it’s lacking severely in these ‘little’ quality of life features, that users come to expect based on their general internet travels.

inSided, any updates here? We definitely want this. I think there is no one who doesn´t want? If so, why you don´t want this?

I understand that this makes users to browse the community more but side effect is that this annoys users as well. Every other social platforms has notifications / notification centre, people have used to. They found very weird that inSided doesn´t have it.

Check our latest roadmap update for some more information on what we have planned for this idea (relevant timestamp 12:55). FYI our FY begins in February.

Awesome, thanks a lot ?

Definitely wants this! We have users that has expressed the need for a notification center on multiple occasions 😊

Currently hosting an AMA and our guest experts have both asked “where can I find notifications?” because we are having some backend email notification issues. This would be amazingly helpful for folks who don’t want their inboxes filled with notifications, but that still want to be notified of activity!