Add more (optional) notifications

[Dakkaron]

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

Currently, there are some relevant events that do not trigger a notification.

• Post/comment was deleted/moderated in some form
• Post/comment received likes
• Answers to sub-comments

Describe the solution you'd like.

I'd like Lemmy to send notifications for posts/comments that where moderated, so that I know whether I need to take an action (e.g. fix my mistake and re-post the post in a way compliant to the rules).

I'd also like Lemmy to give me notifications when certain upvote milestones have been reached. Reddit gives you a notification after a post/comment reaches a score of 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000 and so on for the first time. Notifications like that help to keep engaged to the posts.

I also think it would be good to get a notification on sub-comments. So say I post a comment, someone replies (I currently get a notification) and someone replies to the reply (I currently don't get a notification). I'd like to have the option to get replies for such sub-replies so that I can easier follow the discussion.

To avoid notification overload, these notifications should be toggleable.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Honestly, not really any alternatives.

Additional context

No response

[krestenlaust]

It is being looked into in this issue, #2631

[Dakkaron]

That's a really useful feature as well, but I actually didn't mean system notifications for the apps (even though they are very useful) but instead I meant to add more notifications in the webapp/app itself. So if you click the bell icon in the webapp/app, that there are more notifications in there.

[krestenlaust]

Oh, I understand now, you would like a wider selection of events to trigger a notification. I like the idea of increasing engagement, and letting users opt into more notifications. On the other side of the table, there's the instance hosts, paying for every single email sent: #3011, this issue is about letting the admin reduce the amount of messages being sent. Though primarily about debouncing setting up intervals

[Dakkaron]

That makes sense. Email cost is an issue. Would it make sense to make these extra notifications non-email-only? Just something to tie the user back into their posts/comments when they are on the website/app already anyway?

[krestenlaust]

I've just furthered the discussion in the other thread to make sure it's even a real concern. Anyway, I believe having notifications separate from specifically being e-mail or push is the best course of action, though it would be relevant to decide what the default settings are.

[Dakkaron]

Hi @dessalines,

The linked ticket #1883 is kinda the opposite of this one here.

#1883 asks for the ability to disable existing comment, mention and private message notifications.

This ticket here asks for adding optional notifications for post/comment getting deleted by moderators, post/comment getting a certain amount of likes or someone answering to sub-comments.

They aren't duplicates.

[dessalines]

Gotcha. This is pretty complicated (I don't know all the specific cases you want either), and we have limited dev resources, so I'll re-open if anyone wants to work on this.