Collapse repeats of edited comments in inbox

[susanreads]

Title:
Collapse repeats of edited comments in inbox

Area:
inbox, notifications, comments

Summary:
When a comment is edited, collapse the notifications so that there are not multiple identical copies in the inbox

Description:
When someone edited a comment on a post I was tracking, the notification that I hadn't read yet was changed to show the edited version, and a new notification was added, so that there were two identical entries starting "Edited comment". I assume that if someone edited their comment several times, more notifications would accumulate. I found this confusing.

I assume people would not want the previous version(s) of their comment sitting in people's inboxes and that this is why the original notification is updated. I would prefer not to have the multiple copies, though, which don't seem to serve any purpose.

Drawback: in case someone has already read or deleted the original notification, the code would need to check whether the original was still there, but there must be a link to it in order to update the contents (to say "Edited comment" instead of "New comment").

Poll #1315 Collapse repeats of edited comments in inbox

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31

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Should be implemented as-is.
14 (45.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (6.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (12.9%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (32.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (3.2%)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

I don't know if this counts as "implemented with changes" or should be a separate suggestion but I'd rather be able to opt out entirely of getting these notifications.

[cesy]

The remaining notification(s) should make it clear that the comment has been edited, but could easily be collapsed, the same way as for messages you've read.

[archangelbeth]

I wouldn't mind seeing a new link to an edited comment, if I'd deleted the old notification already -- I would've seen the *old* one, after all. But yeah, multiple copies of the edited comment, all showing the edit, make me sigh.