Expand the range of e-mail preferences
The current settings seem to strongly imply that most games are going to run at what strikes me as a pretty fast clip, with a notification e-mail every day coming with a warning that you're likely to slow everyone up. Honestly, more than anything else, I just prefer to read things here, so getting every move e-mailed to me, also, was irritatingly redundant. Some people might like that, but some less frequent digest options for less fast-paced games would be nice.
(It might be even nicer if it were possible to set e-mail preferences per game, rather than as an absolute -- then you could indeed accept a constant barrage of messages in a high-paced game, while setting it for a, say, weekly digest, for a game that only requires one or two moves a week.)
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Xan
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What I would like would be the ability to choose what I am notified *about.* Maybe I want to be notified when someone makes a move, but not every time that someone posts a comment. Or maybe in the initial phase of the game, i want to be notified when a new character has been submitted, but not every time that someone edits there character. Essentially, I want to be able to turn notifications on and off by type.
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Robert Mohr
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Definitely agree that we could use some expanded preferences, though I'd like to see them expanded to some sort of digest for periods shorter than a day, as well. I could see an hourly digest being useful for games that run really fast, and it wouldn't clog up the inbox with constant e-mails like the "every single move/comment" variety.
One idea that might be nice: open it up with dropdown boxes for pretty open selections. Something like:
Send me a digest every [Number] [Time Period Types], with additional e-mails for critical updates (comments mentioning me, revision requests, etc.)
So one person might set that to every 2 hours, while another person might set it to every 3 days, and another might set it to every 30 minutes.