Also the 4 hour interval is configurable, we can set it to much lower in testing environment like beta-labs
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Benny Situ <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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