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Dysfunctional Reply Link in Wall Post Email Notifications

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Sun, Jul 26 2009 6:06 AM (1 replies)
  • Faterson
    2,902 Posts
    Sun, Jul 26 2009 4:56 AM

    Bug Description: If someone publishes a Wall post on your profile page, you receive an email notification about it. The last line in that email notification says:

    WGT email notification:
    You can reply to this message with the following Link:

    That is not true, however. Clicking on that link simply transfers you to your own profile page. There is, as of today, no way to reply to a wall post directly; nor is there a way to maintain a sense of conversation: you can only reply on the original sender's own profile page, yet there will be no hyperlink connection between the 2 wall posts, and confusion may ensue. For the 2 users concerned, and even more so for a casual visitor to a player's profile page who may wonder what all those wall posts may be alluding to, since the posts' context not always makes that clear.

    (For further illustration and comments on this bug, see a blog post I've just published, titled Conversation with Tibbets. The blog post was made necessary precisely because there is no other practical way to follow a conversation taking place simultaneously on 2 users' message walls, with no hypelinks between them, such as This wall post is a reaction to another wall post.)

  • tibbets
    1,043 Posts
    Sun, Jul 26 2009 6:06 AM

    I agree, it would be more useful if the wall communications between players were more thread-based in nature.  This would allow for a certain continuity to be maintained amidst the different comments that a person received.  When someone responded  on your wall "in regards to your comment" , the message would appear as sub-text beneath.  The use of the email notification link would automatically place any response into the proper place.

     

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