Editing Talk:2389: Unread

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I have 27,333 unread emails.  On the level of "Your email is important to me.  Please wait and it'll get read eventually."  [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 00:25, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Oh hai! https://i.imgur.com/FXt1AYq.png lol [[Special:Contributions/172.68.142.195|172.68.142.195]] 10:17, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

You are all wusses - about 2 weeks ago when I looked, my ex-wife had over 750,000 unread emails.  She wouldn't let me take a screenshot :P [[Special:Contributions/172.68.86.112|172.68.86.112]] 00:05, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
: I'm guessing communication was a problem in your relationship? ;) --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.247|162.158.187.247]] 17:48, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

This graph seems way off to me. It says 'percentage of messages', so the highest point should be at the far left. At some point, you will have a single message saying "Welcome to WhateverMessagingService", which will initially be unread, therefore 100%. When he's standing at the beginning looking at the icon that says 2 messages, that's probably 2 out of 3, or 2 out of 4. It could be back up at 100% depending on the service (does it auto-delete read notifications?), but it's likely lower than at the start. But for the first few weeks, I'd expect to see a series of tall peaks, gradually getting lower as the number of old read messages slowly increases, with flat valleys inbetween where everything is read. Then as you get into the habit of putting off reading them, the valleys start getting shallower until they swallow the peaks, and you get a slowly rising curve that eventually levels off pretty high.
This graph seems to rise forever at the end, which makes sense for a graph of the ''number'' of messages, but not for a ''percentage''. [[User:Angel|Angel]] ([[User talk:Angel|talk]]) 11:34, 24 November 2020 (UTC)       


::Perhaps a better axis label would be: "Messages marked unread 24 hours after receipt" or similar? [[User:OhFFS|OhFFS]] ([[User talk:OhFFS|talk]]) 18:22, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

:The graph would also be quite rough. I imagine it's been smoothed to make sense, and (especially if the time axis is very long) these irregularities would all but disappear over time. As indicated by the 'eventually' in "Every system eventually becomes email", Randall/Cueball has probably used this service for a while. [[User:BlackHat|BlackHat]] ([[User talk:BlackHat|talk]]) 16:00, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Which is why everyone needs filters for sub-mailboxes.  Of those 27,333 , 27 000 go into the "IgnoreThisCrap" mailbox,  300 go into "Respond by the end of the next Sprint,"  and 33 remain as candidates for reading maybe after lunch.  [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 11:36, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Should the incomplete tag be deleted? This seems complete to me. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.124|141.101.98.124]] 11:43, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Should we link xkcd 1783?
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.208|172.69.34.208]] 18:24, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

:Good idea. Added. [[User:Orion205|Orion205]] ([[User talk:Orion205|talk]]) 03:54, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

There's one error in this comic. The curve at the right edge of the graph implies that the number of unread emails grows logistically on large enough timescales. In my experience, it's linear at best and exponential at worst. [[User:GreatWyrmGold|GreatWyrmGold]] ([[User talk:GreatWyrmGold|talk]]) 15:16, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

:While the ''number'' might better follow an exponential graph, the axis refers to the ''percent'' of unread messages. Since this can't be higher than 1, or 100%, the graph has to be logistic in order to cap at the maximum limit. Unless, of course, your inbox grows so quickly that you have more unread emails than emails, and for all we know that might happen. [[User:BlackHat|BlackHat]] ([[User talk:BlackHat|talk]]) 16:00, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

my inbox in a nutshell [[User:An user who has no account yet|An user who has no account yet]] ([[User talk:An user who has no account yet|talk]]) 22:40, 2 September 2023 (UTC)