In case you haven't been following the conversation on wikitech.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Derk-Jan Hartman" d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@gmail.com Date: 2 Sep 2014 14:46 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Is simplicity is the key to success of Echo and Watchlist? To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc:
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org wrote:
On 09/02/2014 07:47 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
When I watch a talk page, that doesn't mean I want to be NOTIFIED of everything on every page.
Wouldn't simply turning off flow notifications do? Or, perhaps more flexibly, just making the setting more granular?
I know /I/'d like to be notified of direct replies and pings without having a notification for every update to a thread -- that does seem more suited for a passive watch list.
I want Flow notifications if someone replies to me, or mentions me in a talk post. Or even for everything if that Flow board would happen to be my own talk page for instance. BUT, that is separate from watching a page.
Normally, when watching a page, I would not want notifications on every page that I visit, for every reply to every post, new post or retitled post. I want to see what the last major changes were. Mostly, new topics, and the last change to a new topic.
Currently, I feel like Echo is forcing me to consume Flow discussion, where rather, I only want to be 'subscribed' to them and then consume the subscription at the moment that I feel comfortable doing that. It is like it is mixing my mailbox with my newspaper...
DJ
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