Mahz

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Thanks for all the quality feedback that yall've been submitting so far. It's really helped me out and made it obvious what I need to be working on over the next couple weeks!

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@JBRam2002 Well, I guess people should be able to choose if they get on-site notifications and/or email notifications for a given topic or roleplay, so that would be two checkboxes.

Maybe instead of checkboxes, there's a drop-down box next to each topic/roleplay where you can choose:

1. No notifications (default)
2. On-site notifications
3. Email notifications (+ on-site notifications)

Of course, visiting a topic/roleplay should automatically clear all notifications for that topic/roleplay so that you don't have to delete stale notifications yourself.

How does that sound?

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Updates:

1. Post deletion: You can now delete your own posts within 10 minutes after creation. The 10 minute limit for now just lets you delete your own double-posts or wrong-tab posts. What's a more reasonable limit that prevents people from vandalizing a roleplay by deleting all of their posts?

2. FAQ: I just started stubbing out an FAQ page linked from the navbar:



All staff members can edit that page, so we'll be filling it with more stuff soon. It's pretty empty right now.

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@Altered Tundra No, I think that there's a difference between topics you just want to 'bookmark' vs topics you also want to receive notifications for (whether you are happy with just the on-site notifications or if you want emails when they are updated).

I think communicating that while making it easy to manage this difference via the UI is the hardest part.

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@JBRam2002 By on-site, I mean the existing notification system.

Right now, /subscriptions is the most popular page on the Guild. I assume many people keep it open in a tab and then periodically refresh it to see if anybody posted in their RPs.

Seems like the first order of business is to let people opt-in to receiving one of these when a subscription gets posted in.

From there it seems straight-forward to let people configure if they want to receive an email notification.

The nice thing about email notifications is that most people already have email notifications setup on their phones and such.

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Should the Guild let you opt-in to receiving on-site notifications (using the existing notification system) when a topic/roleplay you're subscribed to receives new posts?

I reckon I could then expand this into an optional email notification system as well.

And then into an optional Discord notification system where GuildBot sends you a private message on Discord.

You know, the hardest part of building Guild features isn't the technical part, it's usually the UI part.

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Nice nice and welcome!

Welcome to Hell

@Lucien Nailo Welcome

Deletion request

Got it

Herro~ ヾ(*ΦωΦ)ﾉ

@little whiskers Somehow your post got eaten by the anti-spam system. :(

I fixed it just now, but it prevented people from seeing your post.

Poor lil whiskers.

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Unfortunately, Discord is still pretty limited.

For example, I'd like unlimited channels and the ability for roleplay GMs to create unlisted channels with custom permissions.

I think the long-term solution is to find a self-hosted Discord alternative that's more powerful.