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Re-thinking the functionality of activity, notifications and comments

Let's start with a quote from another thread:
How do we approach our audiences with those functionalities so that it's not confusing to them?
Do we fix it with plugins or with changing the core sourcecode?
In closing I only have one misgiving about the functionality of vanilla two. I do not feel that the “activity, notifications, discussions and comments” functionality is as intuitive as it could be. I consider confusion of my users to be a very bad thing. Perhaps this complaint is a nitpick but it bugs me.What do you guys think, should we re-think the functionality of activity, notifications and comments in discussions?
How do we approach our audiences with those functionalities so that it's not confusing to them?
Do we fix it with plugins or with changing the core sourcecode?
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Currently it seems you have to visit the notifications tab for them to go away.
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I think the problem mainly comes from the lack of words and titles to describe what people are looking at. You kind of need to know what an activity is, in order to work out you are looking at activities. Most end users, if they don't get it immediately, will give up and not come back. People don't like to have to climb over a wall to get what they want - the gate should be open all the time.
-- Jason
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And this is two things that must be done properly. So new developers could understand where they can help.
It is just not public.
They told recently that they want implement caching and spam control, but time frame for this and all other things remain unknow.
There are additional features & priorities outside of the GitHub tracker, but it's the canonical bug list still.
it's a huge issue for my boss and one that unfortunately might make me have to move away from vanilla.
Looks like doubt when making it.
I know about GitHub, but it is hard to take it very seriously with top priority problems being about 1 year old, and many 6-7 months old. But may be I do not understand something here.
Looking at this forum I think that most members do not report bugs on GitHub anyway, so you need to come with better solution (with source code on github still).
More frequent pull approvals and releases could be also good (ala 15 days per small release).
We frequently ask people to post bugs to GitHub, or post them there ourselves.
Don't tell me what I need to do.
All I want to say is that forcing ordinary users to report on github is bad idea, and reality proves it.
As for github bugs list I still do not understand how to find all current and actual bugs, who is assigned to work on them and their status.
Please, help me with it.