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Your opinion here is completely valid and probably pretty widespread, but I feel almost entirely the opposite. Every time I get one of those "what's new" pop-up

Your opinion here is completely valid and probably pretty widespread, but I feel almost entirely the opposite. Every time I get one of those "what's new" pop-ups in an app I already enjoy, it feels like Christmas morning for me and I almost always immediately go try out the new feature(s). I don't think I would find most of them (or wouldn't find them as quickly) for most apps without a nudge saying what to look for.

heavenlyblue 7y ago
I constantly use: Slack, Datadog, Gmail, Sentry, JIRA, Confluence, Google Cal, IDEA. And that’s excluding the apps. CityMapper, Google Maps, Amazon, WhatsApp. Every day there’s something new released in one of those apps. I can barely keep up with my email stream - you are either not using enough apps or you have too much free time on your hands.
- cdubzzz 7y ago
  OP literally started with, “your opinion here is completely valid” and shared a valid opinion and you responded with, basically, “you’re doing it wrong”.
  - Erlich_Bachman 7y ago
    Or they just indicated why the opinions differ, ie what might be the different usage patterns that lead to different opinions.
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anoncake 7y ago
There are better solutions for that such as an ordinary notification.
- fcarraldo 7y ago
  Personally, I don't want apps that I'm not using to send a disruptive notification that there's something new in the app. I'd prefer that the app let me know the next time I launch it, as being described by OP.
  - zentiggr 7y ago
    A notification sounds like less interruption than a full screen modal "Click here!" that will fire the feature to demonstrate it. Absolutely hate those dialogs.
  - anoncake 7y ago
    That's orthogonal.
ben509 7y ago
My feelings on the subject are entirely dependent on luck. If I'm trying to do something, naturally most of the time, I'm cursing the notifications and trying to skip past them. If there's less pressure, I might read through them out of curiosity. What I'd really like would be an OS service that could show me a random selection of features from any of the applications I have installed. And, presumably on an opt-in basis, you could share which features you use, thus a bit of analytics could even recommend features I'm likely to find useful.

heavenlyblue 7y ago

I constantly use: Slack, Datadog, Gmail, Sentry, JIRA, Confluence, Google Cal, IDEA. And that’s excluding the apps. CityMapper, Google Maps, Amazon, WhatsApp. Every day there’s something new released in one of those apps. I can barely keep up with my email stream - you are either not using enough apps or you have too much free time on your hands.

cdubzzz 7y ago
OP literally started with, “your opinion here is completely valid” and shared a valid opinion and you responded with, basically, “you’re doing it wrong”.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y ago
  Or they just indicated why the opinions differ, ie what might be the different usage patterns that lead to different opinions.

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anoncake 7y ago

There are better solutions for that such as an ordinary notification.

fcarraldo 7y ago
Personally, I don't want apps that I'm not using to send a disruptive notification that there's something new in the app. I'd prefer that the app let me know the next time I launch it, as being described by OP.
- zentiggr 7y ago
  A notification sounds like less interruption than a full screen modal "Click here!" that will fire the feature to demonstrate it. Absolutely hate those dialogs.
- anoncake 7y ago
  That's orthogonal.

ben509 7y ago

My feelings on the subject are entirely dependent on luck. If I'm trying to do something, naturally most of the time, I'm cursing the notifications and trying to skip past them. If there's less pressure, I might read through them out of curiosity. What I'd really like would be an OS service that could show me a random selection of features from any of the applications I have installed. And, presumably on an opt-in basis, you could share which features you use, thus a bit of analytics could even recommend features I'm likely to find useful.