Tell proposers about new comments

[lazyatom]

Via twitter?

[h-lame]

What's the deal with DMs. If I follow you I can DM you? Or the other way around?

When signing up we could follow the user from rubymanor (or a new vestibule account?) and when they get a suggestion we could DM them with "Good news! @ has left a suggestion for your proposal '' "

Or just @mention them.

[lazyatom]

I think the deal is "if X follows Y, then Y can DM X". So we'd actually need people to follow @rubymanor, rather than the other way around.

I think @mentioning would get annoying, because it's likely to appear in a bunch of people's timelines...

On 6 Sep 2011, at 12:03, h-lame wrote:

What's the deal with DMs. If I follow you I can DM you? Or the other way around?

When signing up we could follow the user from rubymanor (or a new vestibule account?) and when they get a suggestion we could DM them with "Good news! @ has left a suggestion for your proposal '' "

Or just @mention them.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/h-lame/vestibule/issues/2#issuecomment-2013656

[tomstuart]

I'm happy to fix this issue if we can agree on how we want it to work.

I suggest we choose between:

1. We make a new Twitter account for Vestibule (annoyingly @Vestibule is taken) and use that to @mention the proposer of a talk when a new suggestion is made. This would be okay because people won't already be following this new account (and if they do, that's their problem). The downside is that we can't/shouldn't @mention the suggestion author in the message because that'll just be annoying for them.
2. We tell people to follow @rubymanor (e.g. when creating/editing a proposal?) if they want to be notified of suggestions on their proposals, and then send them a DM if possible. This is generally better but it does require slightly more effort on the part of the proposer, and it's conceivable that someone would want to be notified of suggestions but wouldn't want to otherwise see @rubymanor tweets.
3. We don't do any Twitter notifications, and instead explicitly mention the per-proposal RSS feeds.

In cases 1 & 2 we'd need a mechanism for opting in and out of notifications, since the alternative is to have people blocking us on Twitter.

[lazyatom]

I agree that Tom's two principle options make sense. If we were to pursue the DM route, we could update our cron task to check whether or not a particular user follows @rubymanor and set a flag, perhaps? I think either option is viable though.

[h-lame]

I think 2 is the best option. If there is an edgecasey person who wants to be notified of suggestions but not follow the rubymanor account then that's what the RSS is for. Sucks to be them. If we DM folk rather than @mention them then we can say who left the suggestion, which is a useful bit of info.

[h-lame]

There's a large part of me that thinks, actually, we've got a reasonable momentum going now. Perhaps we don't need this? The champs and scamps page seems to have done something. Or perhaps it's everyone having tickets now.

Let's watch it and see.

[tomstuart]

I agree that this is a non-issue now that we have sufficient participation.

[tomstuart]

In hindsight we should perhaps have asked for an (optional) email address at first login (cf Klout), just for sending notifications. Email still feels like the most convenient and unsurprising way to do this sort of thing; I'm not convinced I want to be automatically notified of anything via Twitter.

[h-lame]

There's a comment by a proposer from a Ruby Manor 4 talk along the lines of:

Hey guys, sorry I didn't respond sooner, I got no notification about this whatsoever. :(

I think there's a couple of things we could do:

1. Upon submission of a proposal tell proposers that there's no notification, but they can subscribe to an RSS feed of their talk to be told about new notifications.
2. Actually do email notification

Bit late now for RM4, but maybe worth it for any future vestibule uses.