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    By this criteria, we can never call anything an improvement. Someone will always want to keep things as-is. Not intending to insult anyone, and we do care. Sorry that it was taken that way. Commented Dec 6, 2022 at 7:02
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    Yeah, this seems pedantic. It's fair enough to call something an improvement if it is being done in good faith with the goal of improving something, and most people would see it that way. Commented Dec 6, 2022 at 7:54
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    I agree with @Yaakov here. The fact we can now mark inbox items as read/unread alone is a big leap forward. The way it's done, the bugs, the things that can still be improved are a different story, but overall, it's moving forward. Commented Dec 6, 2022 at 8:11
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    @ShadowTheKidWizard I already could mark inbox items as read, with two clicks; now it takes three and one of them is a tiny icon. That is not forwards. Commented Dec 6, 2022 at 12:11
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    @YaakovEllis I don't agree. If you add a new option and some people want to use it while others don't have to, that objectively doesn't make anyone worse off. In that case you can objectively call it an improvement. If you change the behaviour to make it worse for some people, but you tell us it is an improvement, that makes it sound like you didn't consider those people when making the change. Commented Dec 6, 2022 at 12:16
  • It's impossible to make everyone happy, in anything, in any aspect. Commented Dec 6, 2022 at 12:18
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    Case in point, I have already opened my inbox, navigated to this comment thread, and responded to your comment, yet the site tells me I still have two unread items in my inbox, and shows one unread item when I click on it, and it's this comment thread. That is not an improvement, it is a degradation; being told it is an improvement just makes me think you don't know what the change means or you don't care. Commented Dec 6, 2022 at 12:19
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    After posting another comment now it says I have three, while still only showing one. "You can't make everyone happy" is a vacuous truism, not a sensible response to negative feedback. Commented Dec 6, 2022 at 12:20
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    @kaya3 that one is actually under review, you can skim through the answers here, and you'll find it. Commented Dec 7, 2022 at 15:13