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December 11, 2009, 04:00 AM
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Currently one can subscribe to get individual email notification for all postings in a group. The problem is that if a group becomes very active, this can get spammy (and/or very distracting).
Alternatively, one can turn group email subscription off, and instead subscribe to get email notification for specific group threads if one is interested in them. This would work for very active groups, except one wouldn't learn about new threads unless one regularly visited the group.
One obvious solution is the digest format. "Here is all group activity during the last [timeframe]."
I'd like to suggest another solution: subscribe to receive individual email notification of new threads that are started in the group. One can then choose whether to subscribe to further notification for each thread.
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December 11, 2009, 04:59 AM
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I'd actually like both options. There are gonna be (hopefully) groups that I have varying levels of interest and interaction with. The full spectrum. Some groups I'll want email for everything! Gustavo's suggestion is a nice lower-volume hybrid where you pick and choose how much real-time attention you want based on initial topics. Daily digest of some kind would suffice for yet others.
It may sound like overkill, but there are some group concepts related to tight-nit collaborations where I'd actually want the possibility of notifications for when new photos are shared in the photogroup too. I haven't seen the group's photos treated as a true object you can subscribe to in this way on 23, other than the overview panel on the user landing page. But it might be nice.
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December 11, 2009, 05:00 AM
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50 emails an hour is frankly unacceptable. I love the website, but this really needs to have the option of being turned off.
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December 11, 2009, 05:07 AM
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this does have the option of being turned off.
every single email you get includes a link to go to the group the email came from, and unsubscribe to email updates.
you can the activate email updates on a conversation by conversation basis.
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December 11, 2009, 05:13 AM
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Come to think about it, yet another option could be to be able to unsubscribe from specific threads. I'm guessing this would be particularly popular as an option.
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December 11, 2009, 06:31 AM
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I like that too, if for no other reason than the symmetry of it. Nice way to selectively ignore things when otherwise fully subscribed.
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Team 23
December 17, 2009, 10:25 AM
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Alright guys, there's now an option to only subscibe to new topic for each photogroup.
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December 17, 2009, 10:29 AM
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excellent!
i'm now enabling limited notifications in nexus, where i used to have it fully disabled.
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December 17, 2009, 10:37 AM
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sweet. Just did an audit and downgraded *most* of them to this option.
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December 17, 2009, 03:04 PM
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December 20, 2009, 08:31 AM
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Actually. I may have been confused about an expected behavior related to this.
1) We can subscribe to a single thread via email, or at least I thought we could do this... because after starting one, you are presented with this option.
But I seem to not be able to find a way to do this per-thread after the fact or when you are not the author? This was something I thought was already an existing feature, maybe it wasn't?
Lots of group dynamics will evolve to treat certain threads as "indexes/references"... regardless of the frequency you wish to receive email generally from the group, there will often be some threads (even beyond the ones you author/reply-to) that you will want to follow closely.
If i'm not seeing where to do it please enlighten, otherwise consider it a feature request?
Edit to add: There is also the scenario now where you may bounce between subscription frequencies... and allowing a handful of important threads continue to be an exception regardless of that per-group setting would be nice?
Perhaps the answer is as simple as "reply to it" to see this subscription option again?
Re-Edit to add: In the mean-time, there appears to be an RSS solution. Example: this thread as RSS.
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December 20, 2009, 08:42 AM
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The subscribe option is offered -I think- when starting a thread and when posting to it.
It would be good to be able to subscribe without posting. No need to trigger an email to N people just to subscribe to a thread...
It would still be nice to have my 2nd suggestion, namely the ability to unsubscribe from specific threads (while having a full group subscription).
In other words, group discussions would have three email subscription states (all postings/all threads/nothing) and each thread would have three subscription states (notify/don't notify/use group default). One could then mix and match options to taste.
For example: I could subscribe to full notification from a group. A thread becomes too noisy, I unsub from the thread (mute it).
The group becomes overall more active, I switch to notifications for new threads. I see an interesting thread being started, I subscribe to full notifications from it.
Later on I go on vacation, so I stop notifications from the group entirely. I still get notifications from the thread I subscribed to explicitly, since the thread sub overrides the group default.
I come back from vacation and switch to full notifications again. I still don't get notifications from the thread I muted earlier, since the mute overrides the group default.
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