I think the point is that it's unrealistic to expect people to handle this on the "client side" and they should "opt in" for those notifications/messages by joining that channel (i.e. separating events on the server side, so it applies to all clients).
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Bahodir Mansurov <[email protected]> wrote: > I use LimeChat, but haven’t tried hard enough to filter out bots. I don’t > mind creating a new channel and directing bots there. XChat advanced > settings related to “Text Events”, which maybe what you want. Not sure > about the backlog support though. > > On Apr 30, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Bryan that's exactly what I'd like. Direct the bots to other channels and > join those if you want the notifications. I personally will because I find > them very useful. > > Baha the reality is not that easy. I want backlog so I've moved to the > irccloud chat, and there I can only ignore users. The problem is that I > find wikibugs and grrrit-wm very useful and I don't want to hide them, I > want to separate them to another channel. This way for activity and > notifications I'll join the notifications channel, and in the main channel > I'll be able to read and have conversations with people without tons of > noise. > Would you mind having another channel open with the notifications? We > should expect all team members to autojoin that channel when working too. > > Jon, Ori told me that limechat can hide messages based on regexes. I poked > around it and searched google but found nothing useful and he didn't reply > on irc so I'm not sure which dark secrets he holds :P > > What client are you using baha? > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I personally detest them now I am working with mostly a remote team. >> They are useful occasionally but not missing messages from team >> members is far too important for me. >> >> I've not found a good way to filter these out (look at the pink lines >> that mean pings in my irc client - http://imgur.com/MsYk9OO) >> >> I've also noticed an increase in private conversations recently to >> compensate for this which sucks for openness. >> >> A compromise to reduce noise might be: >> * don't include name of author in patch submits/phabricator tasks >> reported by the bot (so that author doesn't get pings that mask other >> pings from other users) - but someone would have to implement this. >> >> I think moving to a new channel seems like an easy solution. Nothing >> gets missed provided people know to join it and nothing needs to be >> implemented. >> >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Bahodir Mansurov >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I think they should stay and everyone should be able to configure their >> > client to hide specific message from showing. >> > >> > On Apr 30, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Brian Gerstle <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Totally agree, having *important messages only* in IRC would be nice. >> > Another idea would be to have notifs go to more specific chat rooms >> based on >> > the project. >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Corey Floyd <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I think this is a good idea… the only thing I think should be in the >> main >> >> channel is something like breaking the build (at least for the apps >> guys) >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi! >> >>> >> >>> I've been feeling that the signal to noise ratio on #wikimedia-mobile >> >>> since the addition of wikibugs and our new apps engineers (more >> grrrit-wm >> >>> spam) is turning to be 0 (that is, no signal because of too much >> noise). >> >>> >> >>> It is really difficult to talk about anything when somebody else is >> >>> working (and that is what we do, so...). >> >>> >> >>> I would like to propose moving the machines to a different channel, >> maybe >> >>> a couple of them ( #wikimedia-mobile-web-bots & >> #wikimedia-mobile-apps-bots >> >>> for example ) so that they continue to be useful but in a different >> channel, >> >>> and so that we can read again the chats with just the conversations. >> >>> >> >>> What do you think? >> >>> >> >>> Cheers. >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Mobile-l mailing list >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Corey Floyd >> >> Software Engineer >> >> Mobile Apps / iOS >> >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Mobile-l mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > EN Wikipedia user page: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle >> > IRC: bgerstle >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mobile-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mobile-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Jon Robson >> * http://jonrobson.me.uk >> * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson >> * @rakugojon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle IRC: bgerstle
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