I'm trying to use the new messaging / mailbox but it does not seem to be consistent. Sometimes when I click on the envelope icon, I get what looks a little bit like the old Black Boxes, with a list of people who have texted me. The ones I haven't read are bolded – although the number of messages it indicates that I have doesn't seem to agree with the number indicated on the icon. Sometimes I can't make the number disappear (i.e., go to zero).
When I read a message, it can be of any length, from a single line to several paragraphs. Sometimes, each paragraph seems to be a separate message.
Other times when I click on the envelope icon, I'm taken to a new page with an envelope on the RHS of the page, and a list of messages on the left. When I click on the icon from a friend, I read the message as if it were an email.
All told, I have not been able to figure out how it works, and it doesn't seem to be consistent.
Likewise, the notification system does not work. Just now the bell icon showed 55 messages. I clicked on it and found 10 notifications from people I mostly didn't know – probably related to threads that I have followed. I clicked on "Clear 10" and 20 notifications disappeared – but not the 10 I had already seen. I tried again, and was left with 5 notifications – but again, none of the ones I had already seen disappeared. I kept seeing the SAME notifications over and over, and have no idea what the other 45 notifications were about.
Either I just don't understand how this is supposed to work – or it's not working.
Help?