More email integrations.. post notifications and identity
Dani'el Levity
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The reason I posted this on Loomio is because I didn't get any reply on diaspora.. Why do I think I'll get a reply here? Because loomio sends an email digest. Diaspora needs to be more integrated with email.
A feature I would like to see is a 'Notify aspects via email' check box when posting.. I've been using G+ solely for that feature.
Maybe users could input their personal smtp info to limit server loads, if that is the issue.
Users should be able to add people to aspects that aren't on diaspora so they get an invitation and email when I post to that aspect.
This might help create a network effect, too..
We should be able to identify with our normal email address, too so others can search users by email or discover all email contacts from an address book file.
If others agree that these are reasonable implementations, I will add a small bounty, maybe others will contribute, too..
Joel Desermeau Thu 24 Mar 2016 7:10PM
This sounds like a good idea but sane defaults are a MUST
Danyl Strype · Mon 21 Mar 2016 1:16PM
I would recommend adopting the approach the Loomio crew are moving towards with email notifications; simple 'Loud'/'Quiet'/'Mute' sliders. A master slider in the settings are to determine the default for all contacts, and one slider per contact appearing somewhere on their stream page, is very easy to understand. But configured thoughtfully, it gives as much granular control over notifications as a sea of check boxes.
I also suggest replacing the PM inbox in the web interface with just sending the PM text directly to the user's email address (or XMPP address?), with any response going back to the senders email address via the Pod (with their email address obscured). This could be combined with a check-box option for receiving PMs only from contacts, in case it results in anyone getting too many messages from Diaspora users into their inbox. Another option would be that the default for PMs from contacts would be to send to email, while PMs from users who are not contacts would go into the inbox in the Diaspora interface.