http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4201 I should also mention that you will only get notifications if you have entered an email in the user settings area. So if you ever want to globally turn off notifications, simply do away with your email address. For the paranoid, the email address field supports the "somebody+fromwhere@gmail.com" convention, where emails to "somebody+fromwhere" will be delivered to "somebody," but with the email still tagged with the "+fromwhere." You can use this (at Gmail, at least) to somewhat effectively identify where your email traffic is coming from, provided you tag the address you hand out to other places on the Internet with something relevant. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:24:28 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4201 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4200 I think I've got something basic working. If you log in, hit "More...", and then Subscriptions, you can see the list of searches you're subscribed to. From there you can view the searches your subscriptions are based off of, as well as delete the subscriptions. To create a new subscription, find a "search" that you like. You can do this by using any of the shortcuts on your navigation bar that go to a search page (Unread Replies, All Unread, Thread Replies, etc.). From there, next to the read/unread options, you should see a "subscribe" link, that let's you use your search as a subscription. This means that you can pick and choose which rules you want to be notified with. Don't care to get emails about somebody's posts? Use: -user:kaiden. Don't want to get spammed on the noise coming from the idkfa section? Use: -item:idkfa. Only want to see things you haven't read yet? Use: is:unread. And, because I'm not just some conjurer of cheap tricks, you shouldn't feel like you need to have one subscription rule that does everything, or that you need to write your rules so they're mutually exclusive. You will only be notified once about each new post (even if more than one rule matches), and then never again. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:19:00 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4200 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4199 Testing, testing... kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:14:15 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4199 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4198 I like the idea of a program fist-bumping. Or maybe just that "'Sup" kind of nod from across the room. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:50:45 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4198 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4197 People still communicate in forms longer than 140 characters? That's so quaint. In all seriousness, I get bored at work/airports/elevators/etc often enough that I don't know how often I'd use it. If I worked somewhere with action packed day-in, day-out excitement, it might be nice to get a fist bump from idkfa about topics of interest. conrad@idkfa.com (conrad) idkfa Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:24:27 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4197 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4196 So, I've talked a lot about my seen/unseen features. It's an interesting problem, technically. But it's fairly boring, practically. If you interact or communicate on the Internet, you come across probably a dozen places where this is a "solved" problem. See: email, texting, voicemail, instant messaging (when you click on the window, it's no longer blinks at you), the notifications of missed calls on your phone, etc. The mechanism generally goes like this: something happens, you get a notification, and then the notification goes away, usually never to be seen again. The idea is, though, that you get notifications in a place where you plan on looking. The problem with idkfa's "notifications" is that you won't always be looking at idkfa. And while there are RSS feeds, they aren't the immediate notifications you might get via other means. So the question would be: would you want more immediate notifications? By immediate, I mean via email, which I think would be as immediate as I would every want to be yelled at by idkfa. It would be something like this: you have a set of notification "rules." These rules would be the exact same rules you would use to perform a search (so you could have the same power to do fancy things like you can with the search tool). When a post is made, everyone's rules are checked to see if a match is found to your rule ("Is this post in reply to me?", "Is this post a reply to one of my threads?"). If a match is found, you will be sent an email saying that something happened on idkfa that you might care about. What do folks think? kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:10:11 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4196&msg_id=4196