Unsubscribe from multiple notifications

[zvi]

Title:
Unsubscribe from multiple notifications

Area:
Manage Inbox

Summary:
Allow a user to delete multiple discussion tracking notifications at one time.

Description:
It's very easy when there's a wide ranging, very interesting conversation to subscribe to many, many entries or comment threads simultaneously. However, once the conversation dies down, deleting the subscriptions is a real pain, because it has to be done for each subscription individually.

This is sort of a pain for free users, who will run up against their subscription limit fairly quickly, as well as a pain for paid users, because once they have reached their subscription limit, they'll have hundreds of subscriptions they would like to delete, and have to act on them one by one.

I'm not sure how this should be implemented, although we might consider getting rid of the option to unsubscribe from a subscription while having it stay saved. I'm not sure I understand the point of that anyway. In any case, the biggest drawback to this proposal is implementing it in a way that makes usability sense.

Poll #973 Unsubscribe from multiple notifications

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45

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Should be implemented as-is.
38 (84.4%)

Should be implemented with changes.
6 (13.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
1 (2.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[cesy]

Unsubscribing while keeping it saved is useful if unsubscribed-but-saved subscriptions don't count towards the limit.

However, an option to delete several subscriptions at once could still be useful.

It would help if after deleting a subscription you got scrolled back down to where you were, instead of back to the top.

Possibly just add a button at the bottom to "Delete unused subscriptions" which would delete all the ones that had been unticked?

[erinptah]

if unsubscribed-but-saved subscriptions don't count towards the limit.

They don't, but I hate having them there - they clutter up the page, and it gets miles long. A single "delete inactive subscriptions" button would make my week.

[turlough]

Yes, PLEASE!! ANYTHING that will make deleting notifications easier!!

[ct]

I wouldn't want to see the unsubscribe-but-save option disappear. It's useful in cases where a post suddenly heats up. I like being able to temporarily turn off notifications without losing the link to the post entirely. (Which, yes, I could solve by bookmarking it elsewhere, but it's nice not to have to do that.)

I've been using a Greasemonkey script (currently only works on LJ) to make it possible to delete multiple subscriptions, and for the most part I like the way it works. It adds a Delete button to the bottom of the page, and changes the behavior of the page so that clicking the trash can marks a post as to-be-deleted by putting a red border around the trash can. As-written it's not great for accessibility, but it might be a place to start from.

[afuna]

Ohhh that script. I wrote that one! Thanks for reminding me about it. I just updated it to work on Dreamwidth as well.

Having something that works natively to Dreamwidth would be so much better, though! *goes vote*

[snakeling]

*pokes* It's extremely wonky for me on LJ. I select some subscriptions to delete, and click the delete button, but not all subscriptions get deleted. It seems extremely random. :/

[afuna]

Is it still? I noticed some weirdness after I updated to FF 3.5, so I did some fixes. Try updating (and cross fingers *G*)

Oh, the script name changed, though, so you'd need to delete the old version.

[snakeling]

Nope, still not working :/ Don't sweat it if nobody else reports problems; it's not like I use it often anyway :)

(Speaking of Greasemonkey, have you ever thought about updating the taglister to work with Dreamwidth? I've tried doing it, but Javascript is like Greek to me.)

[afuna]

I have, but it feels like a huge endeavour (mostly because I still wince every time I look at that code.). I keep meaning to look, but so far I haven't gotten far *G*

[snakeling]

Heh :D

[turlough]

I would love you A LOT if you do sometime :-D

[alixtii]

I wouldn't want to see the unsubscribe-but-save option disappear.

Seconded--sometimes it's interesting just to see which entries I once thought were interesting enough to follow.

[gchick]

I'm agnostic on delete-but-save, as I've never used it. BUT OMG YES to handling multiple subscriptions at once!

[montanaharper]

I don't want unsubscribed-but-saved to go away, but being able to delete multiple unwanted items at once would be fabulous.

[triadruid]

This, basically, is my "with changes".

[musyc]

Yes, please. Deleting multiple subscriptions at once would be so very nice.

[ilyena_sylph]

Please? This would be so wonderful.

I had a ton of things subscribed to while I was paid on LJ, and when I dropped to free, all of a sudden I had to go through and delete, delete, delete one by one... I'm still not through, and I can't use my 'subscribe' feature until I get through.

It's not likely to be a problem for my Seed account here, but my secondary RP accounts? It could definitely come in handy.