Better notifications/My updates

Question

Hello, i've noticed that whenever a new answer has been added for the user, there's no easy way for the user to easily notice that actually there's something new on their accout.

I suppose that once someone comments on a user's question or they receive an answer, other than the optional email notification, the My updates link should atleast change color and show the number of notifications perhaps in a color like red or blue. This makes it more noticiable and visible to the user.

Thanks

Comments

This is probably going to be added to Q2A 1.6, see http://www.question2answer.org/qa/19647/have-your-say-on-question2answer-1-6

Answer 1

Hi David, please install NoahY's history plugin which provides this kind of feature:

http://question2answer.org/qa/10054/how-about-stack-overflow-style-activity-reputation-history

Download: https://github.com/NoahY/q2a-history

Comments

Hello  echteinfachtv (Kai),
Thanks for your response. I've downloaded and installed as per the instructions in on my server. I've changed the event logger to log events to the qa_eventslog table and saved the changes. The plugin appears in the list of installed plugins, however, i DON'T SEE anything! I don't see the notifications, i don't see any slight change to the system. What am i doing wrong? Thanks

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e.g. ask a question and let somebody else answer it. you will see a notification [ 1 ] yellow on top besides Updates.

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Yes, i've done that, but still i can't see any changes!! Has been working for you? What's your setup?

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Check >Admin >Plugins if plugin is listed.

Have you followed all installation instructions?
Check if there is the table qa_eventlogger in your database.

Use the URL: http://www.YOURSITE.COM/user/USERNAME?tab=history if this site exists the plugin is working.

Good luck. Kai

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Thanks, but it's still not working.
The qa_eventlogger table exists and the system is even writing data to it. The plugin exists under plugin. But let me struggle with it. thanks again.

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Hi David, finally I have created a plugin for better notifications (on site like FB and Stackoverflow), please see http://www.question2answer.org/qa/33127/premium-notifications-facebook-stackoverflow-question2answer