discussion XF 2.3 Alert Improvements by Xon 2.13.0

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A collection of improvements to the XenForo Alerts system.

Do not use MySQL statement-based replication with this add-on

Features

• Per-alert 'mark read' links on each alert
• Multi-select ability to mark alerts as read or unread.
• Avoid unexpected marking alerts as read by browser prefetch, this may result in alerts not being marked as read as expected.
• Global option, enable/disable alert summarization
• User Option to prevent marking as read when accessing the alerts pop-up
• User Option to prevent summarization when accessing /accounts/alerts page.
• User Option to adjust summarization threshold
• Only mark alerts that are viewed on alert page/alert pop-up, not all alerts
  • If an alert was explicitly marked as unread, skip marking that alert as read when the alert pop-up is touched.
  • Per-alert 'alert bell reads' configuration

Supported content types for alert summarization

• Posts, conversation, profile post, profile post comments, xfmg comment reactions
• User follows
• Post quotes

Performance impact

• Alert pop-up can fetch a number of unread reactions to attempt to summarize them