We could turn on email bundling for the email problem, basically it utilizes delayed job queue. It sends one initial unbundled email, then send bundled emails every 4 hours
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Danny Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > The new version of subscriptions and notifications has been out on > Mediawiki.org for almost a week, and we're learning some interesting stuff > so far. Some of it is working as intended (and therefore awesome), some of > it is buggy and needs fixing, and we're getting some feedback on what's not > quite working right. > > I've seen some grumbles -- some on WP:Talk:Flow [1], some on MW:Talk:Flow > [2], and some from people in the office -- that are basically about two > things: Email notifications, and Subscribing to a board. > > > > *Subscribing to a board* > We had a lot of discussion about what subscribing to a Flow board would > mean. Basically, we had two options: > > A) You get an Echo notification that a new topic has been created > B) You get automatically subscribed to every new topic created on the board > > We hypothesized that A would work better for people who look at Echo more > than their watchlist, and B would work better for people who look at their > watchlist more than Echo. > > We needed to pick one to try out and see how it feels, so we chose B, > which was closer to the way that watching a page works right now. > > What we're hearing from the feedback this week is that people are feeling > spammed -- subscribed to too many topics that they're not interested in. I > think it would be reasonable to switch it to A -- that would also solve the > "two notifications for the same action" problem that we're currently having > with one notification for "created a topic" and another for "posted the > first message," which is the same thing. > > So I'll talk to Erik and Benny, and anybody else who cares, and we'll > figure that out. Does anyone have thoughts about it? > > > > > *Email notifications* > Oh, and then we also didn't pay attention to email notifications, and > therefore we ruined the world and I feel moderately bad about it. We're > sending one email per post on a thread, which is obviously too much. > > I think the right answer there is to follow the example of watchlist > emails -- send the first one, and then don't send any more until the user > visits the Topic page. That's how watchlist works, and I think it's fine. > I'll make a card and we should probably jump on that as soon as we can, so > we stop ruining email. > > I'm also interested in thoughts on that, if anyone has some. > > And then we keep on Flowing. Peace out. > > > Danny > > > > [1]: WP:Talk:Flow feedback -- > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow#Problems_accessing_mediawiki_flow_page_-_and_too_many_Echo_notifications > > [2]: MW:Talk:Flow feedback -- > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:S17tpg980s0mjuvi > > _______________________________________________ > EE mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee > >
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