Title:
Send inbox notification to new OpenID accounts upon comment or entry importation
Area:
inbox, importer
Summary:
When the importer imports a comment, it should leave a notification in the inbox of the associated OpenID account stating "A comment you left at {original site} has been imported to {Dreamwidth journal/community name}."
When the importer imports an entry from a community import, it should leave a notification in the inbox of the associated OpenID account stating "An entry you wrote in {original community} has been imported to {Dreamwidth community name}.
Description:
Currently OpenID accounts have very little ability to find comments, and soon entries, that have been imported to Dreamwidth. The Recent Comments page only goes back 10 comments, and deleting one of those comments doesn't let another one slide in at the back of the list. Currently the search by poster function [http://foo.dreamwidth.org/?poster=] doesn't work for OpenID accounts, not by using the displayed name {bar.livejournal.com} nor by using the internal name {ext_###}. Unfortunately, it's too database heavy to try and search for all comments and entries an account made anywhere that isn't their journal, so my idea is to give the user a place to start looking themselves.
When the importer imports a journal or community, it should leave a notice in the Dreamwidth inbox of the OpenID account that's been created (or added to) stating what action just happened. It only needs to leave one notification per import.
Under this idea, a user from LiveJournal would log into Dreamwidth for the first time using their OpenID credentials and find an inbox with several notices already waiting for them, like this:
"Comment imported to {Journal A}"
- A comment you left in {Imported journal's original address} has been imported to {Journal A}
"Entry imported to {Community B}"
"Comment imported to {Community B}"
"Comment imported to {Journal C}"
Edit: It's one message per import, not one message per comment/entry. If you count the community and comment import as a single job, it's up to two message per import.
For example, say somebody decides to import
gardening to DW. In my OpenID account's inbox I'd get one notification saying that an entry or entries I posted there had been imported to DW. I'd get another notification saying that comments I had left there had been imported to DW. And that's it.
Upsides: OpenID users feel more in control of imported content.
Downsides: Will probably slow down the importer.
Poll #9001 Send inbox notification to new OpenID accounts upon comment or entry importation
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 59
This suggestion:
View AnswersShould be implemented as-is.
18 (30.5%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
11 (18.6%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (8.5%)
(I have no opinion)
25 (42.4%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)