https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57935

--- Comment #1 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> As a substitute of a bot, MassMessage inherits a subscription model based on
> entries listed in wiki pages. This is a very fragile process, open to abuse
> and user mistakes.

Open to abuse how? Wiki pages provide full accountability and transparency,
unlike user preferences.

That said, catching/preventing user mistakes (or more directly: simplifying the
subscription process) is the actual underlying bug here, I think.

> A first step wold be very basic: subscribe to all notifications / unsubscribe
> from all notifications.

I can't imagine any use-case for this. As far as I'm concerned, this is a
non-starter.

> A possible next step would be to allow subscriptions per "channels" or
> "newsletters".

We already have this, it's just implemented via wiki pages instead of via user
preferences. Perhaps something like [[mw:Extension:LogEntry]] or
[[mw:Extension:InputBox]] could be adapted to make subscribing easier. Maybe.
Unsubscribing would be tricky, though. A small JavaScript gadget could easily
be written to make adding and removing users from a list easier, but that
wouldn't solve the possible use-case of wanting to see (as a subscriber) every
newsletter to which you are subscribed.

I don't think this is a MassMessage bug. Perhaps an Echo bug. Perhaps an
"Extensions requests" bug. But this seems likely out of scope for MassMessage.

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