Tag based opt out for email subscriptions

[matgb]

Title:
Tag based opt out for email subscriptions

Area:
subscriptions/ESN

Summary:
Allow notification subscription for all posts by a person EXCEPT those tagged [whatever]

Description:
When I add someone to my reading page, or to a reading filter, I can add all their posts, all their posts with a specific tag, or all their posts except those with a specific tag.

If I clicky the little bell icon I can subscribe by email/inbox to all posts by a user, or all posts with a specific tag. I would like to be able to subscribe to all posts by someone except those with a specific tag.

I moved across the country to live with miss_s_b. Pretty much since we met, we've both subscribed to be told of any entries made by the other immediately. This is useful to us, even if we're both sat on the sofa with laptops open. However, she also uses AndrewDucker's automated link post script to compile her delicious links daily. I like reading her link posts, but I'll read them from my reading page as I do for other people's. I want to know when she posts something substantive immediately, not when she posts a link roundup. Clearing my email today I realise I've stopped reading the email notifications as many of them are links to the roundup not an actual post, making them less useful.

Ergo, I would like to exclude those posts from my subscriptions. Given this functionality exists in other areas I think this is a natural expansion and I hope it's an easy one for someone to code.

In the meantime I'm setting up a gmail filter to delete them, but it'd be good to not need to, and I'd hope reduce server load.

Poll #10624 Tag based opt out for email subscriptions

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

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Should be implemented as-is.
29 (70.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (29.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[dhamphir]

I submitted this very suggestion in January of 2011 here: http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/504995.html

And it's since been tagged as migrated, so it looks like we'll eventually be getting it! :D

[denise]

*facepalm*

This is what happens when I tackle the suggestions queue on a bad pain day :P

[dhamphir]

Hey, no worries! I'm just excited that it got migrated. *G*

Sorry to hear you're having a bad pain day. That was me yesterday, so I understand.

[kaberett]

Have tagged it bugzilla:exists. Let me know if this is incorrect.

[denise]

Should be bugzilla:duplicate ('exists' is for 'is already live on site and i missed it somehow') but don't worry about tagging it that way -- adding any of the bugzilla:* tags can make my count look off, because I also have to tag the admin entry that goes with the suggestions entry! (Every bugzilla:* tag has a corresponding admin:* tag that goes on the admin-only entry that goes with each suggestions post; it's a handy cross-check to make sure I don't lose track of anything.)

(Don't worry about it in this case, though; I'll go fix this one's admin entry up right now.)

BTW: unless there's any significant discussion on the suggestion post before someone called "duplicate", you don't need to do the various site: and workflow: tags for a duplicate suggestion -- I don't delete duplicate suggestions if I accidentally let them through the queue, but we all pretend we can't see 'em ;)

[matgb]

Aha, I looked as I thought it an obvious idea but must've missed it, excellent. And I see that I even commented on it and voted yes. Good good.

@Rah, you've got a good excuse, I was just being useless, it wasn't even during this awful heatwave.