<this represents my personal opinion and in no way is anything official>
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Diego Moya <dialmove(a)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. I have about 3000 pages in my
watchlist, and receive around 400 updates daily only from talk pages,
which 50 or so come from unique pages; getting all those as
notifications would render Echo useless to me. Apparently this volume
of data was not taken into account when designing the notification
feature that was rolled out this week, and it is still ignored in the
redesign proposals that I've seen at the various forums.
I wouldn't want that either. But maybe newbies would; that should probably
be studied, if notifying newbies of new conversations on their watched talk
pages is beneficial or not.
As for people like us, it seems there's already an opt-out in the form of
going to Special:Preferences and turning off "flow" notifications. That
could be made clearer that that's what it does, though.
I agree that the ability to select specific threads or boards for
notification without doing it for every watchlisted board/thread would be
even better. But that seems like a lower priority, since watchlists still
work.