OK I guess it is just going to be a real annoyance until then and this is without all the PS4 players in the system so it is just going to get worse.
EDIT: I wonder if the parental control to limit chat will work to stop all the messages from popping up?
holy smokes
ok the 244 notifications were old ones, and some pretty old PMs too.
Weren’t unused PM channels supposed to disappear? It looks like the messages have disappeared but I still have some 'channels" to scroll through for players I haven’t seen online in 8 months or more.
Boundless: The Novel.
Best of luck to your future reads! 
I love it, atm I get to much guild messages from my alt and to much message from the global chat which I wan’t
understand it now correct, if I set the filter to off it is now real off (for me and only on pc)?
Sony doesn’t stop debug UI’s. I have played Ark survival evolved on a friend’s private server and can debug it if needed. It may just be that the creative mode isn’t setup yet in a form that the PS4 can handle.
its not quite so simple as that.
before we updated 10 channels every 30 seconds’ish and it just round-robined choosing the 10 “least recently updated” with no extra criteria + an extra channel (or many on notifications which is actually a composit of many channels, one per alt + a universal announcements + a username level notifications channel) when not on #all to be faster, now it updates 1 channel every every 2.5s’ish, but which channel it picks to update is based on a lot of criteria:
The result aims to not be any more “expensive” on the backend, but being much more responsive in general use-cases, eg you send a pm to someone: activity is higher, so is updated more frequently expecting you to get a response. If a pm is sent to you, once it is received itll be updated more frequently for a while expecting more messages to come soon. If you are actively PM’ing someone, even on the #all channel, it should be much more real-time than before where it would ALWAYS be slow as it was wasting time updating channels you hadnt interacted with in a really long time for no good reason [ and the bugs in the system meant that whenever it wasnt updating a specific channel, itd end up missing new messages in that period too making it much more useless… ]
This change will revolutionize exo shuttle! Haha
it’s a work in progress =P
Just noticed that messages “timestamp” appear to be in my local time instead of UTC time now… THANK YOU! 
Is there a reason why messages must be polled and cannot just be pushed instantly to users? Having them pushed means instant real-time interaction without any delay instead of anywhere between 1 second to 30+ minute delays? I’d rather have instant communication rather than lag-induced communication.
The original reason was that the messaging system was developed for async communication via the letterbox.
As usual, requirements change and gradually it became more and more “a chat system” but alreay developed ontop of a normal database that does not support publish/subscribe semantics that are needed for real time chat.
It wouldn’t be a small amount of work to change the backend, so as it stands that is not going to happen in the near future.
The UI is presented like a standard MMO Chat system, NOT a letterbox system. This is why I thought it should be designed for instant delivery of messages, not having them queued up like they are now.
For example, if interacting with letterboxes opened up a new UI which functions like mailing systems seen in MMOs like World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, RIFT, and the likes, where you can compose letters. Letters are displayed similarly to e-mail and you can send/receive items via letterboxes, I can understand having them be polled and delayed, but since its UI is akin to normal chat systems in MMOs, having it not be instantaneous chat is … not beneficial in the long run.
Updated OP with details of a hotfix for a crash some players were hitting.
Oh yeh I got this… I’m just so popular. Finally I can log in! Its tough being popular 
I got a single message from someone saying “check discord” 
I must have missed something, but how do I enter the creative mode? (Yes, I’m on PC)
Go into the game like you normally would, hit F1 > creative, and go from there
Thank you! I’ll check it out as soon as possible.
Is it down for maintenance right now?
It keeps saying that I lost connection when I try to swap to creative
Some guidance here:
omg this please
