FabSwingers.com forum: Colour coding incoming messages

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

This idea to help those who get loads of mails through.

At the moment all unread mail is highlighted yellow.

How about having an extra 2 colours, one for mail from those in your pals list and another for those mails from those in your hotlist (or maybe those you have previously winked at).

Then people can prioritise what they read and choose to delete the rest.

For instance, someone in chat could tell another user to mail them, they can add that profile to their hotlist and when the mail comes through it will be highlited another colour.

Steve xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh I like that idea, you know I do (said in the voice of Hiss from Robin Hood cartoon film, sorry!)

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By *nvictusMan
over a year ago

Beeston

...and a colour for single males messages, to help save on valuable deletion time!

That's actually a really good idea!

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

Agreed this has potential.

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By *atie74Woman
over a year ago

N Ireland

What a brill idea!!!

One colour for new contacts

another for people you have msg'd

and a third for friends......would be fab!

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By *on-bazCouple
over a year ago

rushden

So then we also need a green one for those that wear tights... Get a grip peeps...just read through the names - ya being lazy!

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By *on-bazCouple
over a year ago

rushden

But then again...it would be polite to answer all messages, even if it is a "tanks but no thanks".

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By *atie74Woman
over a year ago

N Ireland

Its not a case of laziness......i have 800+ emails and if i spent the time ploughing through them then i would not have any time to play

I 'lose' alot of msg's from friends and replies because its always just a sea of 'yellow'

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By *ts artMan
over a year ago

Londonderry

think you need to consider the tech involved sever space software etc and the associate cost

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"think you need to consider the tech involved sever space software etc and the associate cost"

I'm no expert, but the relevant flags are already in place within the site so that i see on someone's profile whether I've messaged them before, and whether we're friends.

Colouring the messages in my inbox based on the status of those flags would take about 3 lines of code.

I think the servers could handle that!

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By *ts artMan
over a year ago

Londonderry

not a expert either but see what you mean maybe admin could respond with there thoughts

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By *quirty ladyWoman
over a year ago

in a convent somewhere on a hill

I think this is a good idea for peeps getting lots of messages,but how about bring back the page numbers back on your message inbox saves scrolling and it worked well before.... just a thought xx

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

Yes, I to think this is a good idea.

From a technical perspective, I don't think it'd be difficult nor resource-intensive to do, especially as it'd only be called when a user is viewing their Read Messages page, so it's not all the time. You could quite easily calculate any performance hit doing such a look-up would incur, and the server logs would show how many times that page is accessed every minute. That would help identify if it's going to have a negative impact.

I think this would be a worthy addition for site supporters... it might help convince a few others (99.9% females, I'd imagine) to become a site supporter too!

*sigh* If only I had so many unread messages that I felt it necessary to filter them *sigh*

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By *j_markCouple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

We like this idea we want to do more to make the inbox more user-friendly in 2011 we'll try and prototype something along this or similar lines.

Admin x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Why not just go one step further and provide a personal servant who will check the mail and read it out aloud in the members preferred order of importance.

It'll save anyone having to put any effort whatsoever into their membership.

Oh the trauma of having to look down a list to see who's sent a message - it must be horrendous

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Oh the trauma of having to look down a list to see who's sent a message - it must be horrendous

Ahhh... Your like us then... Only get one or two a week?

But I'm thinking of the lucky (or unlucky) people that get hundreds a week or even a day.... But that's just me, thinking of others and the bigger picture.

Following on from your thoughts, why not email microsoft and ask them to roll back windows to 3.0 or even better go back to DOS... Why have something to make peoples times on the interent easier when its more fun to let them struggle or get frustrated?

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By *obletonMan
over a year ago

A Home Among The Woodland Creatures

Shouldnt be too difficult - and if it costs, just make it available to site supporters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Why not just go one step further and provide a personal servant who will check the mail and read it out aloud in the members preferred order of importance.

It'll save anyone having to put any effort whatsoever into their membership.

Oh the trauma of having to look down a list to see who's sent a message - it must be horrendous

PMSL!!! My first belly laugh of the day...and also exactly what I was thinking...but I was going to add a Town Crier to notify the man servant...honestly!!!

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By *atie74Woman
over a year ago

N Ireland

"Why not just go one step further and provide a personal servant who will check the mail and read it out aloud in the members preferred order of importance.

It'll save anyone having to put any effort whatsoever into their membership.

Oh the trauma of having to look down a list to see who's sent a message - it must be horrendous

PMSL!!! My first belly laugh of the day...and also exactly what I was thinking...but I was going to add a Town Crier to notify the man servant...honestly!!!

I suppose some people don't get many message's..... I can't think why?

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

Great idea, one colour for friends, one for single males, one for hotlist, and one for replies to msgs sent, sorted!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I suppose some people don't get many message's..... I can't think why?

Well we get dozens, but it still doesn't present a problem quicky flicking through them then deleting 99% of them

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