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Feature suggestion: communities that notify subscribers by default (multiverse.soulism.net)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by Grail@multiverse.soulism.net to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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If PieFed is so great at replacing chatrooms (like Discord), why are we on zulip and Matrix?

I asked this as a rhetorical question, and then I realised the answer, at least for Me. Chatrooms are harder to miss information on than forums. And PieFed does have a feature to address that, which is that you can make a community notify you of all new posts. But the trouble is, chatrooms do better at getting others' attention, because not everyone sets a community to notify on all new posts.

Which is why I have a new feature suggestion: a setting community moderators can toggle that makes all new subscribers automatically ring the notification bell. They can still turn it off if they like, but by default, it's on. For communities where the usual way to engage is that everyone sees every post.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 21 hours ago

I don't like this idea as currently phrased, but if a question box popped up asking the user who just joined if they wanted a notification triggered upon each new post, that could be good?

Most communities that I have done this for I later un-do. Very few communities are both supremely interesting for me to want this yet also have low enough traffic to make it not overwhelming. (High ironically, this very community is one of them though:-).

Note that this would introduce confusion when users automatically get notifications for some communities but not for others.

In general it might be better to somehow highlight for new joiners of the platform the fact that a notification can be triggered on or off for most anything - posts, comments (including those from other people), communities, and users. So maybe like the icon wiggles once an hour for the first week or two of using the platform. Not that it's a priority to do such, but I mean something like this may be preferable than automatically signing someone up to a community without their explicit consent.