Now that users can suggest edits to artworks directly, the community notes, where you could report things like “Incorrect artist” or “Artwork removed” are obsolete, and were requiring a lot of manual work from country managers and hunters that users can also do themselves.
Therefore, we’ve changed community notes to only come in one flavour now: comments.
Notifications page
To make sure you can still see those comments, we’ve introduced a new ‘notifications’ page, which can be accessed from this new ‘bell’ icon on the website:
You can also access this page from the home screen of the app.
Settings
By default, notifications of new comments are sent to the original artwork uploader and the artwork city’s hunters. You can disable these notifications in your account settings.
Review queue
This massively simplifies the review queue, where you can now only see suggested edits that need to be accepted/rejected. If you still want to see community notes, we’ll keep this page around until December:
Hopefully this simplifies and clarifies some things. Please let me know if you have any feedback!
I have questions. You knew I would though didn’t you … lol.
I have just created two comments on two artworks. I can see the Comments when I view the artworks but I did not receive any notifications for them, and nor did I see anything in my Notifications queue (just some messages about badges, that seem to be repeated twice).
Is this the expected behaviour (ie you don’t get notifications about Comments you make)?
One of the options on a Comment when viewing it on the artwork is “Mark as Resolved”, what does this actually do? Does this remove it from the Notifications queues of all people for whom it appears? Is it the same as Marking it Read in the Notifications queue?
If I mark a Comment Notification as Read does it disappear from everyone’s queue, or just mine?
Once a notification is marked as Read is there anyway to see them (ie see ones you’ve marked as read).
It is indeed, you won’t ever receive notifications about your own activity.
It just changes how the comment is displayed, by collapsing it. See also this. The creator of the comment, and hunters, country manager and super hunters can do this.
There’s no interaction between this and user’s notifications. Your notifications overview is just yours, and when you mark something as read or delete notifications, it doesn’t change anything for anyone else - similar to your notifications on Facebook etc.
Personally, I don’t mind that much either way to be honest. Some community notes have been there for a long time, or can’t be verified, etc.
They’ll always stick around as comments (even post December), so people will still be able to see that someone reported it, even if the artwork wasn’t edited as a result of the community note.
-I see an event in the list?
-Why do I see a new upload of Street Art Czechia in this list?
Is my impression correct we have to check first ‘My Notifications’ and eventually afterwards ‘Review Queu’?
I removed some community notes through the link. There I can see the evidence photos.
When I am going from My Notifications → Changes are waiting for review (for example a removed)… I am going to Review Queu and not seeing the added photo (which is essential)
My conclusion for now is, there are changes. Still need to double check for a removed.
To my opinion: a removed suggestion should be linked to the ‘removed community note’?
Maybe I just see it totally wrong and stuck in the old way?
The ‘My notifications’ page shows all the notifications you receive, I think you’re following Street Art Czechia probably?
I wouldn’t consider this a list you need to go through, it’s just a convenient way to look back at past notifications, similar to the notifications screen in Instagram or Facebook.
Only the review queue is the one that needs active action.
Correct, this only shows notifications you’ve signed up for. That does include comments on artworks you’ve posted or in a city where you are a hunter (unless you’ve disabled comment notifications in your profile).
We don’t currently send comment notifications to country managers, since it feels like a bit too much spam to get notifications for comments in any city in your country.
I’ve been getting notifications of some (though definitely not all) of my own uploads and updates, and sometimes even duplicated notifications of them, e.g:
Oh, for the first one of these I think I’ve found the pattern. If I’m following an Artist, and upload new artworks from them myself, then I get a notification. Currently the “you’re following this artist so should be notified” seems to be applied later than, or take precedence over the “this is by you, so should be silenced”, and if I’m following multiple artists who collaborated on a piece, then I get a separate notification for each of them.
Oh, very good point! I’ve been annoyed at this for a while myself too, following the city London I always get notifications about my own actions. I think I’ve just fixed it, let me know if you see a change!
I’ve also made sure the badges spam doesn’t happen anymore, apologies for that!
How should we interpret this log? I go to my Notification list and I have about 50 blind notifications (without a thumbnail )just from the last 5 hours, including editions of markers from hunters I follow, and events from places around the world, which really do not add any value, in the end seeing 100 notifications prevents you to see any. Thanks in advance
Hey! You can tweak what you receive notifications for in your account settings.
This list is just a historic log of all the notifications you’ve received, but you don’t really have to do anything with it, unless you’re looking back to find a specific comment or something like that, similar to your notifications list on Instagram.
@theyarenotvandals you don’t receive notifications of your own actions, only others leaving comments on your artworks. (Similar to how on Instagram you wouldn’t receive notifications when you comment on something)
Yes indeed, the idea is that comments are for more for adding additional info or showing appreciation, but edit suggestions are meant to be used to suggest changes to the artwork.
That way, hunters can just press ‘accept’ or ‘reject’, and don’t need to figure out what change needs to be done from the comment text.
The original creator of the artwork will still get a notification, but indeed nobody else in that situation.
I wonder how important that is, though, since comments now will be more like “I love this artist!” rather than “this artwork has been removed”, as users are encouraged to use edit suggestions for the latter (which you will see in your review queue as a CM).
