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Tue, Jan 27 2015 8:59 PM (13 replies)
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  • KattyD
    883 Posts
    Mon, Jan 19 2015 3:58 AM

    It would be great to have a flag or color code that informs us when there are new or unread messages or replies waiting in our Profile mailbox.  Something as simple as 'grayed out" text for MY MESSAGES button when all read and then going to green if there is unread mail waiting. 

    It would make it more obvious that there are direct private messages waiting to be read and replied to.

    Katty

  • ScottHope
    10,645 Posts
    Mon, Jan 19 2015 1:02 PM
    Do you mean something like this?
    (which is what we have already
    by the way).
  • fjdiehl
    2,047 Posts
    Mon, Jan 19 2015 4:49 PM

    Actually that appears to be the graphic that we already have. It's green all the time on the my messages block. My suggestion is that if all the messages in the box have been read read, then that block would not be green but "greyed out" (no fill color) like the other two boxes.  But if there are new messages in the box that have not been read, then it shows green alerting so you user to the fact that There is new mail that needs to be read. Easy peasey, right? It seems that some players do not check their private messages very often and this would be a flag alerting them that there was something that they should read. Not an earth shattering idea, for sure, but something that would be nice to have if it were not too difficult to accomplish.

    Kat

  • ZioMio
    4,680 Posts
    Mon, Jan 19 2015 5:08 PM

    fjdiehl:
    It's green all the time on the my messages block
    That is because you have at least one unread reply.  Go through all your messages and I bet you will find at least one that you have missed.

    I only look for replies when mine turns green.

  • courteneyfish
    15,796 Posts
    Mon, Jan 19 2015 9:03 PM
    It should be grey by default as stated above. Lots of people seem to think that it should always be green.
  • ScottHope
    10,645 Posts
    Tue, Jan 20 2015 1:38 AM

    Perhaps she meant some kind of notification in the game client window.

  • MichaelStroke
    2,066 Posts
    Wed, Jan 21 2015 12:49 PM

    Go retro with a "you've got mail" audible notification.  Who doesn't fondly remember dial-up?

  • bluzgolf
    1,077 Posts
    Wed, Jan 21 2015 12:58 PM

    MichaelStroke:

    Go retro with a "you've got mail" audible notification.  Who doesn't fondly remember dial-up?

     

    Um, "fondly" is not the word that comes to my mind...   ;-)

     

  • KattyD
    883 Posts
    Sun, Jan 25 2015 12:27 PM

    ZioMio:

    That is because you have at least one unread reply.  Go through all your messages and I bet you will find at least one that you have missed.

    I only look for replies when mine turns green.

    Have reviewed 78 pages of old personal messages going back 2 1/2 years and have no unread messages but my flag stays green.  Do I need to delete all of my old messages?  

    Perhaps my suggestion should have been to add a "Mark all Read" option, as is available in the forum threads, to the private message function......hmmmmmmm?

    Katty

  • mantis0014
    8,946 Posts
    Sun, Jan 25 2015 3:51 PM

    KattyD:
    Perhaps my suggestion should have been to add a "Mark all Read" option, as is available in the forum threads, to the private message function......hmmmmmmm?

    I just checked and I have 195 pages...lol.   Maybe we should have a Multi Post Delete option too

    -Roger

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