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Daniele Cmty
Helper ⭐️⭐️
August 26, 2021
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Differentiate Subscribe / Unsubscribe button

Related products:CC Notifications & Subscriptions
  • August 26, 2021
  • 19 replies
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Hello Dear community,

Me (and esp. our users) find the “Subscribe” button a bit confusing.

at first sight, it’s hard to tell whether or not you are subscribed and it’s not really intuitive.


I think there are better solutions: e.g. most websites have the “Subscribe” button, then I click it, and it turns to “Unsubscribe”.

 

 

 

 

this is the view when I’m not subscribed

 

this is the view when I’m subscribed

The way things are right now, If I am subscribed (but anaware) and want to subscribe to this post, I would click on the “subscribe” button, but that would actually UNSUBSCRIBE me 

 

 

Does anybody have a workaround or any solution or advice for this?

 

Hope it’s not too confusing, the way I described it!

 

Cheers:)

19 replies

Jeanie Lee
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
August 26, 2021

Hi @Daniele Cmty, 

I understand your points above as to how the subscribe button can be a little confusing. I’m curious to hear if any other customers have the same thoughts or possible workarounds. If there are no viable workarounds, I believe this post should become an idea.

Since this is a great piece of product feedback, I will tag @Cristina here, so she can review your feedback. 

Daniele Cmty
Helper ⭐️⭐️
August 31, 2021

Hi @Jeanie Lee, thanks for getting back to me! feel free to turn it into an idea as you see fit.

Gainsight CC Team
Helper ⭐️⭐️
September 8, 2021
Updated idea statusNew→Open
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 8, 2021

Hello @Daniele Cmty I totallyunderstand your point. There could be indeed some confusion. 

I wonder if the colors here could help to make the current status a bit clear. In any case this can be improved. I will leave this idea to gather some votes. Thanks a lot for sharing this feedback. 

Julia_M
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 17, 2021

We have had quite a bit of feedback from our community members about this -- they don’t think there is enough difference in the two button states for clarity. 

Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
December 3, 2021

I find it quite odd, and have to occasionally remind myself, that the star filled in = subscribed. I frequently click multiple times just to make sure it has taken affect. The fill on the star is not easy to discern and doesn’t really mean anything to me as an indicator. If the star changed to a checkmark that would be more useful, but I’d prefer the word to actually change to “unsubscribe.”  

My solution is waiting for the item I put on our marketing team’s backlog to somehow over write this with our own custom styling :( 

Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
December 3, 2021

Hey @Laura D. thanks a lot for raising this. I totally agree and we actually have a ticket ready to make that change, as this is not great UX indeed. We are hoping to pick this up very short term . We will update the phrase to say "Unsubscribe". 

Here is recap of what to expect (FYI @Daniele Cmty ):

 

DannyPancratz
VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
December 3, 2021

For similar reasons, we used the phrasing tool to change Subscribe to “Get Email Updates.” 

Relatedly, I added this idea. 
 

 

FYI: I am no longer active in this community
Daniele Cmty
Helper ⭐️⭐️
December 3, 2021

Yeehaw!
Thank you so much @Marion Frecaut - the prototype in the screenshot is exactly how I would have wanted it 😊

Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
December 3, 2021

@Marion Frecaut - this is perfect, we’re looking forward to the update!!