Request Alert Bubble On Gallery Menu To Indicate New Media Added Since Last Visit

We could really do with an alert bubble option that shows the number of new media items that have been added to the gallery since your last visit.

XFMG has this and it's really useful for bringing the fact that there's new content available to the attention of users.

It's especially good for mobile as an alert in the menu shows at a glance if there's new content so you don't have to scroll below the fold to find the carousel.

Plus a menu alert will be persistent on every page of the site

 

Hmm, I can appreciate this may be a tough issue due to privacy settings for large sites, but new media discoverability is a major issue on forums and incredibly important. It's really vital and effective feature of XFMG for driving engagement.

Many users will log on multiple times a day and only look for the alert bubbles that indicate there is new content to be viewed, and then action that.

Carousels are no good, especially if a lot of media has been added since the last visit, or if you have it set to random.

It's difficult enough to encourage users to use galleries on forums as opposed to threads, as threads always show up in the 'New Posts' page and inevitably end up with much higher engagement.

I'm trying to steal users away from facebook groups where all they have to do is scroll down the page to see everything that's new. This is incredibly challenging. Forum users aren't going to open the gallery drop down and select one of the 4 new content options if they're not informed that there's new content to view there.

Can you please consider how to add this? I really do think this is a vital part of the gallery, otherwise it will gather dust as existing users will not visit unless there's a call to action to look at the new media and users won't upload to it if they think no one will see their media

Media is generally consumed and interacted with more than uploaded, so I would suggest that the 'New ...' link go to the top of the menu too.

 

Perfect!

Which bit do you want me to make a separate suggestion for? I think it's all kind of tied together.

I look forward to some new media CTA alert bubbles, I think that will really help drive views and engagement

 

Any chance this might make it into V2.7? Any any idea when the next feature release will be out?

 

I came here to suggest this very thing, but I see someone has beat me to it, so I will just post in support of this. A bubble alert that shows there has been new content would be huge. Right now no one knows when this stuff has been added. I have to resort to posting in the forums just to tell people that new photos are up. The alerts do a great job of driving traffic to other features on the forums, and I know it would do the same to the photo gallery.

 

I have the widget framework installed, I check the home page and am more aware of new content than anyone.

Even with a new images widget I often don't recognise them until I see them in the live feed or elsewhere as my eyes scan for the red new post or alert boxes on the above the fold content, whether it's on desktop or mobile.

We're not able to detect such subtle changes to the rest of the page if not actively looking for them (as no user is), when there are red alert bubbles call to actions that are supposed to tell us whats new.

I really hope we can integrate the alerting of the upload of new content, and commenting of media content better into the next update

 

So important for engagement. Please add this!

An alert bubble(s) is great for directing traffic to the gallery.

I await in anticipation

 

Any idea when new features like this might ship?