Design: Thread based notifications ? Automatically add name to reply ?
If you make a post that is visible to someone and tag them, then that always produces a notification. The cases besides that one, though, still have to be decided on. For example:
- When replying to a thread, do you have to @ them for it to produce a reply? If not, them you get into the realm of thread based notifications. Between many popular social websites (twitter, facebook, tumblr, reddit, ...) the only one of those that does not do thread based notifications is twitter. So that decision is almost already made
- When you reply to someone, should it insert the @ name at the start of the reply? I think it shouldn't, because inserting an @ name at the start of a reply is semiprivate behavior.
- Also, it occurs to me that semiprivate "subthreads" should not produce a notification. Will have to make sure to code that behavior in
Already decided on:
- You don't have to @ someone for threading to occur. Replying to a post enables threading.