Discord Opt-out Notification Groups

[SpaceBaa]

We love announcements
And we love notifying everyone about those announcements

But, because we love announcements so much, these notifications really pile up.

It took a lot of self control not to check these announcements.

Now, let's recognise that not everyone wants to be notified about everything, so instead how about opt-out notification groups? There are various bots that let users control these for you, like Nadeko Bot's .iam and .iamnot commands, if Nadeko-chan's too anime for you - there's Mee6, or if that's too intellectual for you - pick your favourite one of the many.

So let's take a look at what we announce.

Staff Updates - Very important, obviously. But perhaps we don't all need a running feed. I'm thinking the group @Staff_Updates

 

Development Updates - Interesting live testing, exciting new features, horrifying shiny bugs, and feedback surveys. I suggest... @Development_Updates

 

Server Status - Sometimes the server breaks, sometimes it resurrects, sometimes Byond dies. We'll never escape this so we may as well categorise @Server_Updates

 

Events - Aliens, spiders, complete chaos. or maybe just a Government target official, everything we love about admin powers. All in one handy group @Event_Updates

 

Misc - >.> @Misc_Updates I guess

 

Please

Ignore all these images, every time I pasted it made two copies and I can't be bothered to figure out which attachment is the real one, so they just appear at the bottom of the post.

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Edited July 2, 2019 by SpaceBaa

[nicemoreoften]

mee6 is fucking annoying and spams your dms

[VTCobaltblood]

Opting into specific groups for announcements is not feasible because it makes the players miss important administrative announcements. Opting out of specific announcements is also silly because it's huge role bloat that's on everyone by default. 

If you don't want to be notified,   

[SpaceBaa]

7 hours ago, VTCobaltblood said:

Opting into specific groups for announcements is not feasible because it makes the players miss important administrative announcements. Opting out of specific announcements is also silly because it's huge role bloat that's on everyone by default. 

If you don't want to be notified,   

I agree, opting into groups is not ideal, which is why I didn't suggest it.

I don't see how role bloat is an issue beyond aesthetics, I've suggested at most four roles to add, where currently the standard user has no extra roles. These roles will not require any additional staff management, and could be self-assignable using a bot.

You've missed my point regarding muting announcements. I want to be notified about some announcements, but not all apply to me, hence I'm pinged much more frequently than necessary.

[SpaceBaa]

17 hours ago, nicemoreoften said:

mee6 is fucking annoying and spams your dms

I agree Mee6 sucks

[SpaceBaa]

I guess no one's interested, you're missing out though, look at what you could've had!