The New Inbox (Again)
I still don't like the inbox, except now it has two tabs, one for mentions made of a user and another for all unread messages. This doesn't help anything. All my same issues with the inbox are still there. It still lights up at any single message in any server that isn't specifically muted. There's nothing wrong per say about having a tab to filter for just mentions, but it doesn't address why the inbox is a problem to begin with.
- For one thing, it was a mandatory test pushed on users and there's no way to get rid of it.
- These tabs don't have toggles, meaning even though some users have a tab just for mentions (which some have asked for) it's still stapled to the same shitty inbox there have been so many complaints about.
- The inbox as a whole doesn't have a toggle, so everyone who just wants it gone is shit out of luck.
- Discord has an established language of color, where white balloons mean activity and red balloons mean direct mentions of you. The inbox always displays red balloons regardless, violating the meaning of the color red.
- It's redundant, since the aforementioned white and red balloons on the left of the client already do this job (and are less distracting).
I don't know why we're so hellbent here on forcing people to like the inbox. There's a reason we have choices between light and dark themes, and cozy or compact appearance, and between text sizes from 12px to 24px. Just make the inbox a toggle and I'll turn it off and pay it no further mind.
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