monkdiscuss
mikfire
I frequently like to follow a particular thread of conversation
and usually scroll down into the New Notes section and scan
that list for any new entries into a particular thread.
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I was doing that today and I wondered if it would be
possible to extend the "/msg me when a reply to one of my
posts arrives" functionality and be able to get /msg'd
when a new note is posted in a thread I have marked as
interesting.
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Add a button, say, at the top of each thread "Subcribe me"
( can't resist the Alice in Wonderland reference ). If you
wanted to be /msg'd when a new post was added to thread,
click the button and you are subscribed.
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There would be, at my first glance, two hard parts.
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The first would be some way of knowing that the interested
party had already been /msg'd and not /msg again until they
had cleared the first. This is primarily to keep from
getting overwhelmed in the CB on a busy thread. It is not
currently provided on the "/msg me when a reply to one of my
posts arrives", so maybe [vroom] says caveat emptor and that
is the risk you take for subscribing.
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The second hard part is unsubscribing. I would rather
not clutter the thread interface too much - it is bad enough
already. Maybe another screen could be added off of each
user's account to manage subscriptions - a person could
unsubscribe from here and possibly even subscribe if they
had the node id.
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Is there any value to this? Can it be done?
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