Blue Badge

8 Responses

1. Pro Grant Blakeman

   I would love to see this happen. Red is so, so, unnecessary.

   over 1 year ago

2. Pro TJ Taylor

   Interesting idea. I make sure I check/view everything with the red badge, if not I feel like they're yelling at me. They make me feel ashamed, like i'm lazy...maybe I am, huh.

   Anyway, the blue is nice.

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   over 1 year ago

3. Pro Grant Blakeman

   Yeah, TJ, that's exactly the point. It's silly to feel that way about email, let alone RSS feeds or games in Words-with-Friends—yet many of us do.

   I'm not even entirely sold on the blue as the solution, but not making it red would be huge.

   over 1 year ago

4. Pro Russell Bishop

   Interesting: I just noticed that in my iTunes, if there's a new TV show episode, I get the blue alert circle.

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   over 1 year ago

5. Pro Grant Blakeman

   Russell, very interesting. I hadn't noticed that.

   over 1 year ago

6. Jonathan Mazaltov

   I completely agree with your views, I don't even show my reeder unread count because it is just such an eyesore having 550 in red LOL

   over 1 year ago

7. Pro Justin Lascelle

   Do you think it would be too simplistic to eliminate the badges completely, and replace then with a different app icon state? We'd lose the exactness of knowing that we have 21 new articles to read, but it could read less like a demand and more like a suggestion.

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   over 1 year ago

8. Pro Grant Blakeman

   Justin, I think it would be fantastic—or give devs the added option of some kind of “unfinished” status in addition to the numeric badge. I didn't explore any of those design options, but I think it would be fun to. I'd rather know I have unread RSS items than the specific number of items.

   over 1 year ago