Nitpick: If watchlist and notifications remain separated, it makes more
sense to me to call the operation that adds something to watchlist "watch"
rather than ''subscribe".
בתאריך 17 בספט 2014 12:05, "Diego Moya" <dialmove(a)gmail.com> כתב:
On 16 September 2014 21:32, Danny Horn
<dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Diego, that is definitely what we're thinking
about for the subscriptions
options -- giving users the ability to choose whether they want to
subscribe to every new thread, or just get a notification that a new
thread
has been created.
Danny, that is definitely *not* what I'm thinking about, :-( and
there are nuances that are not getting through the conversation noise
- or at least I've been so far unable to explain myself as to what
those nuances are.
Can you at least acknowledge that you understand the difference
between "subscription" (with respect to items appearing at the
Watchlist) and "notifications" (with respect to Echo)? I haven't seen
that difference tackled in any of the communications from the
development team, although several editors have recognized it as
significant.
The balance that we have to figure out is how to
provide
options on that page-by-page level without forcing people to go through
two
clicks every time.
I'd go with the route of allowing users to select the default value
for both subscriptions and notifications (with new users subscribed
and notified of all conversations they post to, and experienced
editors with lots of pages changing the default to "don't subscribe").
The current subscription check can be set up that way (in
Preferences->Watchlist->Advanced options), and it works very well.
If those options were available, I would configure mine to "subscribe
to all topics" and "don't notify me about any topic" as the default.
We'll probably be tackling the
subscription/notifications question in
more
detail in a few weeks. Right now, we're
working on Hide, the Table of
Contents, Search and the LiquidThreads transition. There's a lot to do!
But
we'll definitely be getting back to
notification options before too long.
That's great, there's a time for tackling each problem in a long term
project. When the time comes, I hope you gather a sample of desired
workflows and needs (including mine), *before* you start analyzing
possible designs that solve them. ;-)
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