--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Anyway, if we want to give people the option of
> bypassing the Inbox
> > for ESN notifications, then it will require a fair
> amount of work on
> > ESN itself. I know that for LJ, the reasoning was
> that emails
> > sometimes don't make it (are delayed, get lost
> somewhere, etc.), so
> > the Inbox was a requirement so people wouldn't
> lose anything. If we
> > want to get rid of that requirement for Dreamwidth, we
> can (with
> > development time, of course). Or maybe we should
> talk about other
> > methods of solving the issue, such as a more robust
> and organized
> > Inbox that doesn't get cluttered/slow when
> there's a lot of stuff in
> > it.
Ah, that's interesting - thanks for the (snipped) explanation above. I'll just
have to remember not to change my settings on LJ :)
>
> Well, I'm okay with them hitting the inbox, but perhaps
> we can make it
> default to 'read' for items that are also being
> emailed. I.e., if we
> know you're sending it to both inbox + email, then we
> put it in the
> inbox as already read.
>
> We can also automatically archive, maybe? Or make the
> inbox view show
> only unread items?
>
That's certainly a compromise that would work for me - that way if my email
provider suddenly starts eating mail I can just check the read messages on DW
and otherwise just pay no attention.
Dani
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