On Jan 31, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Janine Costanzo wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Denise Paolucci > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Surely it should be easy enough as an invisible automatic >> subscription to >> the thread, no? > > Hmm. It would be different behavior that what's expected now, because > if you subscribe to a thread you get emailed all replies to all > comments in the thread, not just replies to the comment you subscribed > to (if that makes sense). So you'd be getting potentially a whole lot > more email than you would if you were subscribed to a single comment. > > There'd also have to be some front-end changes to, I suppose, make it > look like all of those invisible subscriptions were just one thing in > the UI ("send me replies to my comments in other journals"). And > probably some back-end changes to make it so people wouldn't hit > subscription limits from this. > > But it's an interesting thought, and may or may not be easier to work > with than actually making a new event type. Someone who's very > familiar with the ESN code should be the person who does this, IMO > (i.e. not me). :)
Hmm. I hadn't thought of that. But yeah, I don't think it's impossible, just that LJ never prioritized finding a solution for it. We'll figure something out. Even if it involves locking Mark in a room for a week and poking him with sticks until he solves it. (You're recruited to employ the sticks, Janine. *g*) --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
