The more sites I add, the more I connect to Automate, and thus, the more “Automate updated x plugins on blah.com” notifications fill up my bell icon every day and bury notifications I care about, like if a site goes down, blog post I’m following comes out, etc. I don’t really need to know if Automate ran successfully, only if it errors out, and even then, I already get emails about it. Do we actually get notifications when Automate fails? Now that I think about it I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything but Automate successes in the notification feed… I usually only discover that it’s disabled updates somewhere if I happen to notice that a site hasn’t updated in a while…
Anyway, it’d be awesome if we could opt to exclude certain types of notifications in the Hub, or perhaps separate “activity” from “alert” notifications into two separate feeds. Having a single daily email with all of my Hub notifications would also be nice, but for now, that upper-right corner is the only “what’s going on” overview perspective we’ve got.
On a level up from that in the future, it’d be awesome to have an entire Dashboard tab of some kind that would show a more dynamic overview — things like summaries of processed or failed payments, monthly income and income projection graphs, team and client activity, support tickets, sites that are out-of-sync with configs, summary of sites that have red icons, etc.
I love the Hub but I’ve always felt that that requires a lot of digging and many clicks to do things and know what I want to know. Even the red icons will become hard to keep track of once I have enough sites for pagination. I’d love to be able to log in, scan down a nice overview page, and quickly see what actually needs my attention.