On 10 September 2014 19:49, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Diego Moya dialmove@gmail.com wrote:
The feature shouldn't be "notify on all posts on the subscribed thread" either. I don't want to be notified every time a new thread appears at any one of my watched pages.
Hence the "on the subscribed thread" not "on any thread on the board/watched page"
That doesn't make any difference, Martijn. I ''want'' to be subscribed to all the topics at my 3000 pages, I just don't want to get a notification for all them; I want to actively seek most of those at the watchlist in an opportunistic way.
Notifications from a few selected subset of pages would be a godsend; however, if it was deployed to all talk pages with the current design, I'd have to disable the category of notifications from conversations - it's simply too distracting. The "howler" notification widget (is that its name? I first heard it this week) draws all attention when it's activated, in particular with that bright red color; I want it to be activated only for things I deem important, so that I only have to evaluate it for things that require my immediate evaluation. If it gets triggered too often, it disrupts the attention I pay to my other main tasks. This distinction between actively seeking updates in the Watchlist and passive notification from Echo seems missing from the design, at least for events that are not alerts.
However, it's hard to tell whether such suggestions ever reach the development team; it's clear that this one need didn't arrive in time to be taken into account before the release.
Says who? What do you consider a release exactly?
Anything that can affect what an editor can see at en.wiki or any other community site without activating it at Preferences>Beta (that's the official channel for opting in to experimental features, right?)
Everybody acknowledges the former is a mistake and stuff like that can happen in testing.
This is not testing, this was rolled out to the production environment.
I'm confused. Where? Did I miss something? (please don't hesitate to say "yes" if the answer is yes)
Yes, editors who subscribed to Wikiproject Breakfast and Wikiproject Hampshire have been receiving some strange, months-old notifications this week from those Flow pages. Danny had to step in at en:Talk:Flow and recommend that users disabled notifications from Flow to avoid problems.