Topic on Talk:Structured Discussions

I don't really like the Echo notifications at all for the fact that someone created a new discussion on a page that I'm watching. (Why can't I have an inbox/new messages/feed yet?)

However, I really dislike the little 'x' in the notification. What it seems to do is mark that message as being read, but it feels like I'll be removing the page or discussion from my watchlist and/or Echo notifications list.

We're planning some work to improve the experience for Echo messages in a while.

The X does indeed mark the message as read.

@DannyH (WMF):

Similar problems (just the fact that someone created a new discussion): I got a notification about Topic:Sg1s5cm5fffzhx58 (in preview, it linked to .../w/Topic instead of .../wiki/Topic). It happened to be an experiment, was marked with {{delete}} and:

1. maybe Flow should provide sth what Facebook does -- a notification about cancel/deletion? in that case, after the deletion, Echo would send a notification without the link,
2. does Flow support separate categories for topics? I can't see Topic:Sg1s5cm5fffzhx58 in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, despite it was marked 3 hours ago and is still pending.

Categories do not work. See phab:T94617.

The link issue will be fixed by phab:T96492 .

Categories are supported, but only for headers and topic summaries (the latter would be used in this scenario). Hover the ... menu in the topic bar, then click "Summarize" (or "Edit the topic summary" if there already is one).

Issues with deleted pages and topics are one of the things we will look at in the future.