dw_suggestions | Tracking Notifications on Circle's Entries

Title:
Tracking Notifications on Circle's Entries

Area:
tracking entries

Summary:
Is it possible to have an option to be notified whenever someone in our Circle posts an entry?

Description:
Is it possible to have an option to be notified whenever someone in our Circle posts an entry?

It's easier for me to do everything in one spot than to have entries on the reading page and comment notifications in my inbox. It's also easier to delete a notification when something is read than to try to remember where I'm at on the reading page if I forget to use a separate tab to comment. But there are only so many subscriptions allowed, and I have to make sure I remember to select tracking when I add someone. Is it possible to make it so that one check box in the notification settings just follows everyone I want to read?

Poll #9057 Tracking Notifications on Circle's Entries

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 56

View Respondents

This suggestion:

View Answers

Should be implemented as-is.
5 (8.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (7.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
14 (25.0%)

(I have no opinion)
30 (53.6%)

(Other: please comment)
3 (5.4%)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Not objecting but wondering how many more notifications this would mean the site had to send and if that would be an issue or not (so whether this notification should be paid-only).

I think each notification should count as one. I mean, aside from the icons the better tracking options is one of the reasons I pay for an account (though still more on the LJ side than here since communities with discussions are still less active here, and that's what I track most), and it's a good thing that there some real incentives where the paid accounts are better. I mean, wanting to support DW or not, I wouldn't pay if I didn't have a real need for some of the extras offered. And with the 1000 tracking notifications you can get, you can follow many.

+1

It might be something to consider as a paid extra down the road when the payment system is redone to allow more complex transactions, though.

I suspect it's a feature with not enough demand to be worth the potential hassles, even though those are fairly minor.

I consider myself to have a moderately-sized readlist of 150+ journal subscriptions and ~100 communities. No way do I want my inbox cluttered with an announcement every time someone posts, even if that's only the individuals. (Maybe ~250 subscriptions is large-ish instead of moderate-ish. It's not an unusual or extreme number, is my point.)

And while my preferences shouldn't directly affect other people's options, I question where there's any great demand for "send notification to inbox for everything on my readlist." I would also worry that people would opt into the feature when their readlist was small, later join a few friending memes, and all of a sudden their inbox is exploding with notifications they no longer want. And by that time, they can't remember how to shut off, because anything you only deal with at signup is likely to have been forgotten.

If it cost enough bandwidth that it'd need to be restricted to paid users, I'd expect demand to be even lower; paid users are less likely to feel constrained by using a tracking spot for the individual journals/comms they want to keep up with.

I agree with the other comments that say this would be quite the load to handle.

Perhaps we could have something to check off that subscribes you to your entire circle -- but counts as separate subscriptions for each one. And then they show up like all of the other notifications and you can uncheck each one. Er. Like a "check all" option or some such, if you get what I'm trying to say at all.

If I understand correctly, the spirit of this suggestion is not just ease of subscribing, but allowing the larger load to fit under fewer subscriptions, and thus my suggested changes only helps with half the problem -- and perhaps in such a way it's not worth the time and effort to code -- but I believe (but if I'm wrong, you need only tell me, I'm quite the assuming type) that the Dreamwidth team here chose limits on the numbers of subscription with an eye to what was fair and what the system could easily and reasonably handle.

What you said (I'm a "yes, with changes" on this, too).

+1

This subscription would be particularly useful for people who aren't used to blogging, but who would like to keep up with friends on Dreamwidth. For example, my father and grandmother both have Dreamwidth accounts solely so that I can set it up for them to notify them by email whenever I post something. This option would make it easier for families in a similar situation, for example, to set it up for a parent to be notified when any of their children post an entry. It would also be useful for people whose homes are on LiveJournal or InsaneJournal but want to be notified when any of their friends post a Dreamwidth entry.

Edited 2012-01-13 12:13 (UTC)

That sounds fair. I hadn't thought about the bandwidth/load issue.

Even half the problem is better than none. I can avoid tracking people that I know will post the same thing elsewhere, and I have a pretty limited group of friends anyway. Mostly I just want to keep up with the people who are migrating.

For the mod(s?): This was specifically about the people-entries and not the community-entries. I imagine it would be quite a headache to have the entirety of a comm showing up in one's inbox.

And I didn't think about the load, it makes more sense to have them as separate items to manage the load. But can I have a single check-box? I kept forgetting to track people when I found my friends. :(

Tracking Notifications on Circle's Entries

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

Should be implemented with changes.

Re: Should be implemented with changes.

Re: Should be implemented with changes.

Re: Should be implemented with changes.

no subject