We're moving into more "next generation" web apps where the amount of reloading a page someone has to do is greatly diminishing in favor of real-time/reactivity.
I'm wondering if there's some sort of way to discourage people from reloading a page that's real-time. In other words, an icon or something really simple to say "Hey user, you don't need to hit reload because data on this page updates in real-time."
Let's say you have a list like this:
Most recent activity:
- So-and-so commented on your post 12 minutes ago.
- Another Person commented on your post 2 hours ago.
And just sitting on the page doing nothing, new entries will automatically appear:
Most recent activity:
- Someone New commented on your post 5 minutes ago.
- So-and-so commented on your post 17 minutes ago.
- Another Person commented on your post 2 hours ago.
My first thought was a spinning notched circle or three animated dots, but to me that would just look like a loading icon, and it might give the user the wrong idea, that data is still loading and they should wait for something.
Any thoughts on this?