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Is the notification inbox supposed to be actionable in any way?

I see a ton of notices there but I can't click through to anything to investigate further - the only action is "Dismiss" and none of the identifiers are clickable.

Status: ❌ Rejected2 comments

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  • Aleksandra Cieslak

    Team•

    Sep 7

    Thanks for flagging this, and apologies for the long silence.

    We're closing this due to lack of interest. That said, we still think the idea has merit.

    It's just not something we're actively planning right now given the limited signal. If you're hitting this friction, feel free to open a fresh request. Concrete examples of what you'd want to click through to would help us prioritize it against other work.

  • Natalia Gazda

    Team•

    Jun 8, 2025

    Hi Trevor! Thanks for the feedback. The notification inbox is intentionally designed as an **informational system** rather than a direct action center. Notifications serve to alert you about important events across your Spacelift organization, but we keep the actionable controls in their dedicated contexts (stack pages, run details, policy pages, etc.) where you have full visibility into the current state and complete information needed to make informed decisions. This approach helps us maintain a clean separation between **awareness** (notifications) and **actions** (in-context controls), while keeping the notification system lightweight and focused. That said, I can see how having **clickable identifiers** (like stack names, run IDs) that navigate you directly to the relevant pages would improve the workflow without making notifications themselves actionable. This could be a nice middle ground that maintains our design principles while reducing the friction you're experiencing. Would clickable links to navigate to the relevant context be helpful for your workflow? That feels like a reasonable enhancement that wouldn't compromise the notification system's core purpose.