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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on GitHub's new notifications UI?

5 pointsby huntermeyerabout 5 years ago
GitHub has pushed their new notification UI to everyone. I for one hate it. I don&#x27;t like having to click a checkbox then the &quot;Done&quot; button (which is terrible naming for what is essentially &quot;mark as read&quot;). I don&#x27;t have any idea what the new icons mean. The new layout is not easy to scan. I liked having notifications grouped by repo. This is now a cluttered email inbox.<p>What are your thoughts?

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boring_twentiesabout 5 years ago
I don&#x27;t like it one bit. I&#x27;m going to switch to reading my github notifications through email. Not because email is any good, but because this new UI is even worse.<p>As for the &quot;Done&quot; button, I&#x27;m still confused. It&#x27;s distinct from &quot;mask as read&quot; -- that is a separate option still available under the dropdown. So what&#x27;s the difference between that and &quot;done?&quot; I have no idea. Maybe it marks the related issue&#x2F;PR as permanently done so I&#x27;ll never receive a notification for it again? Again -- no idea.
rochakabout 5 years ago
I share that sentiment. I don’t understand what they were aiming for, but it is certainly not user friendly. There are too many steps involved to dismiss it.