Re: [Wikitech-l] There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this page.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:27 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Does anybody else feel a pang of spite in There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this page. especially when other software doesn't force the user to prove his loyalty each time like something from * Your World As I See It - Guilt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwKqq0j1S8list=PL6E40919035151385 Why can't he be given a choice between subscriptions that keep dying and subscriptions that act like ones everybody else is used to? Is this 'what everybody else is used to'? I myself get such notifications from just one place, which is a phpBB forum, and that one behaves the same way: I get a notification when there is a new message in the discussion, but after that I get no email until I have read that discussion. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this page.
Does anybody else feel a pang of spite in There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this page. especially when other software doesn't force the user to prove his loyalty each time like something from * Your World As I See It - Guilt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwKqq0j1S8list=PL6E40919035151385 Why can't he be given a choice between subscriptions that keep dying and subscriptions that act like ones everybody else is used to? I'm talking about official MediaWiki software decisions, please don't mention 'you can just install an extension'. And OK maybe if one is worried about too many dead accounts there could also be 'renew once per 365 etc. days' features -- that users could also pick from too... ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this page.
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:27:50 -0700, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Does anybody else feel a pang of spite in There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this page. especially when other software doesn't force the user to prove his loyalty each time like something from * Your World As I See It - Guilt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwKqq0j1S8list=PL6E40919035151385 That's an interesting way to take a feature likely intended to avoid spamming a user with piles of notification e-mails. Why can't he be given a choice between subscriptions that keep dying and subscriptions that act like ones everybody else is used to? I'm talking about official MediaWiki software decisions, please don't mention 'you can just install an extension'. And OK maybe if one is worried about too many dead accounts there could also be 'renew once per 365 etc. days' features -- that users could also pick from too... Start watching the bug on this issue: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31928 After that... either pay someone off to fix it or wait till someone feels like fixing it. It's already a known issue. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
