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747 sats \ 24 replies \ @Bitman 1 Sep 2023 \ on: Opinions on New Subscription Feature meta
My impression after subscribing (and seeing all those bell notifications) after a handful of subscriptions was:
"Uh oh, this ain't right. I messed up. Gotta find a way to reset this..."
I was hoping for a notification whenever those people posted - I was shocked by having all those comments.
Not sure if I did manage to 'reset' it - but my notifications seem back to normal now.
Your proposal of being able to subscribe to posts and comments independently would certain help this!
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Yeah, I basically just wanted to be notified when @grayruby made his sports posts. Now I get notified every time he replies to someone (and he always replies to everyone).
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Try subscribing to @nemo. Holy shit! I had the two of them posting all afternoon.
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You're Welcome! I for one am enjoying all the notifications I can zap and comment on that I normally wouldn't have even seen.
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I'm truly sorry. I'm pathological about replying to people, because one of my goals is to increase engagement on alternative platforms to help increase network effects and drive adoption.
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Damn. I thought I had it bad.
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A sprinkling of Darth giving shitcoiners a tongue-lashing at the same time might have given it a certain pep though...
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You're welcome Siggy!
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Apparently those unfortunate enough to subscribe to you, me and nemo have a real mess.
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I for one think they should be grateful we have enriched their lives. Hopefully no technical people sub to me. They will be unimpressed.
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LOL
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You're welcome!
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Yep finer grain control might help
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As we're not using a regular app, I guess there wasn't any chance that a few users could have volunteered as 'beta' testers.
However, could have a few volunteers have been given the ability to subscribe, and give feedback, before rolling it out to everyone?
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IMO given that it’s opt-in, and you can opt out, I don’t see harm in rolling it out to everyone and iterating based on feedback. If it applied across the board and you couldn’t not use it, that might be a different story
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Exactly. Ain't that big a deal
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Do you really want to wait several months for us to test features before you get to try them?
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No. Let it out in the wild and kill it if you have to,
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Hell no. We get to mess around and complain.
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Jeff Bezos has a line. It's something like, "the speed in which you make a decision should be based on how permanent the result is."
Most the things we do these days is easily reversed so we ship it once its good enough.
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Good strategy. I had a business partner once who used to like to use the phrase "you need a think tank but I just need a do tank"
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Although I can't help but think Bezos as Dr. Evil with his little finger to his mouth...
I think that's 'neat and groovy' man!
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Well, it only took a couple of minutes for me to use it, for my chin to hit the floor and to formulate feedback.
I did wonder if it was just me for a bit though...
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