The maintainer of a GitHub repo I starred years ago just opened an issue and tagged every single user who starred it, meaning I just got about 25 emails all at once notifying me about every comment made in the thread. At 2 am.
@jws Most of my emails don't notify me, since my inbox is a crowded wasteland I haven't cleaned up yet, but Github issues are one I keep notifications on for, since they're typically important, so my phone had an aneurism until I dealt with the thing @sam
I'm fine with notification emails if I'm explicitly tagged in an issue, but I wish that getting tagged in an issue didn't automatically subscribe me to every update from said issue. // @sam@jws
@33MHz Because I like going off at a tangent, this is a nice opener to: Do you have any plans for an ADN-Broadcast-like by-subscription mass notification, er… thing?
@bazbt3 No plans, no. They had a team that could support first-party apps on major platforms, and I can't do that at this point. Developers could easily build something with notifications and such for a channel type. Or it could happen one day. :)
@josephaleo Positive! I had a couple of channels, most popular was for the weekly #WednesdayChallenge single post short story. It was more comfortable alerting subscribers with the one post rather than initiating multiple swarms. :) @33MHz@jws@sam@caff