make managing your tracking notifications easier

[ratcreature]

Title:
make managing your tracking notifications easier

Area:
tracking

Summary:
It would be great if in the long list of notifications of things you track it would be highlighted when a tag you tracked had vanished (edited or made private or such), or an entry you tracked was deleted, so you can see that one of your notifications is not working anymore. Also it would be great if the list had other sort options rather than chronological, e.g. by type (tracking a thread, tracking comments to an entry, tracking an entire journal etc.) and sorted alphabetically by journal name for example.

Description:
I don't track that many things on DW yet (only a bit over 60 items so far), but on LJ that list has gotten very long, and it is really hard to find things. I could have 1000 tracking notifications on DW and all are just one list.

Among the list I often don't notice that a tag I'm tracking (e.g. for a series I'm following) has been changed, and that that is why I don't get notifications anymore, rather than the WIP having been abandoned. That tag changing actually happens with disturbing frequency as some people like to reorganize their tags (e.g. adding a "series:" in front of the title tag once they have more than one). So it would be great if any defunct notifications could be highlighted in some way, so I don't have to spot them the hard way in a long list.

It would also be good to be able to sort that list in general, instead of the display being always just chronological. I'd find a sorting by the type, e.g. journal update, comments to an entry, comments to a thread, useful, also the possibility to sort the list by the journal name (for communities I'd like them sorted for the comm name rather than the poster). As control I imagine something like a sort button on top saying "display chronological/alphabetical/by type" that you can click like in other places that show you long lists.

Poll #9375 make managing your tracking notifications easier

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Should be implemented as-is.
51 (77.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (21.2%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.5%)