Timeline for Can we reserve the top bar announcements for actual site news?
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| May 7, 2020 at 10:12 | history | bounty ended | gnat | ||
| Jan 8, 2020 at 16:56 | comment | added | David Starkey | @PeterTaylor Fixed | |
| Jan 8, 2020 at 16:56 | history | edited | David Starkey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2020 at 8:52 | comment | added | user142148 | This implies that receiving podcast notifications should be the default. It shouldn't. | |
| Dec 18, 2019 at 15:26 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | IMO there is an error in this answer: it says "disable" where it should say "enable". | |
| Dec 18, 2019 at 14:46 | comment | added | David Starkey | @curiousdannii If you trust the powers that be to make the decision on what is and is not relevant to the user-base, then sure. | |
| Dec 18, 2019 at 2:04 | comment | added | curiousdannii | This would take precious development time, whereas instituting a policy of not misusing the announcement banner does not, and it covers more than just the podcast too. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 21:03 | comment | added | David Starkey | @MichaelKohne That's the problem, who gets to decide what is "actually important"? Some users might think the annual survey is a nuisance while others think it's important. If you want to say only impending downtime should get a banner that's fine, but others might think topics outside the availability of the site are also important. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 19:41 | comment | added | Michael Kohne | That's fine as far as it goes, but I'd argue that the hats are one more thing that should just be in the blog feed, and NOT put into the notifications. I'm arguing that notifications shouldn't need to be turned off because they should ONLY be used for stuff that's actually important. Everything else should go on the blog. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 18:22 | comment | added | David Starkey | @MichaelKohne True, but the idea is that users can restrict anything that they believe irrelevant. For other examples, the holiday hat thing and the yearly survey and results generally get notifications, and I'm sure some users would rather not be bothered by one or all of those. To avoid lots of specific options, you could also force notifications to have a category and allow disabling by that. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 17:48 | comment | added | Michael Kohne | I'm very suspicious of making things a preference. Given that the podcast is also announced in the Blog sidebar, AND that I could see the topbar being used for legitimate announcements ('Impending downtime!'), I'd much rather see the bar simply restricted to real uses, rather than letting people turn it off. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 17:36 | history | answered | David Starkey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |