🌟 [EPIC] Notifications

[ulfgebhardt]

🌟 EPIC

This EPIC issue lists enhancements, corrections and optimizations of subscriptions and notifications.

Goals

• Provide additional objects/triggers to subscribe to
• Enable users to control objects/triggers as much as possible
• Optimize triggers
• Provide additional delivery methods
• Enable users to control notification delivery
• Optimize notification display and handling
• Optimize notification delivery

Priority list

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Stages of the notification process

1. Control settings
2. Triggers
3. Adressees
4. Templates
5. Sending
6. Delivery
7. Message management

Control levels

1. System (hard coded)

2. Network configuration

3. Group settings

4. Account settings

5. Individual objects, e.g. subscribe to specific post

• 🚀 [Feature] Subscribe to contributions #1441
• 🚀 [Feature] "Subscribe" instead of "Follow" #3085
• 🚀 [Feature] Subscribe to Post #4257
• 🚀 [Feature] A User Wants To Follow A Post #4639
• 🚀 [Feature] Notification page: Show from what group a notification originates #5587

Trigger objects

• User and account
• Post incl. mention
• Comment incl. mention
• Group
• Chat
• Report and decision

Trigger events

• Account registration
• Account password change
• 🚀 [Feature] Notification - User joins the network (for moderators and administrators only) #7106
• 🚀 [Feature] Notification - User who I invited joins the network #7107
• User gets invited into a group 🚀 [Feature] Backend, Webapp – Notifications, Groups – Have Notification Type Added you to Group #6193
• User joins a group that I lead
  • 🚀 [Feature] Test group notification to more than one owner #6153
  • 🚀 [Feature] End-to-End: User A get's a notification if User B wants to join his Group #6429
• 🚀 [Feature] Notification - User joins a group that I am a member of #7108
• User is mentioned
  • 🐛 [Bug] Some mentions don't generate a notification #2656
  • 🐛 [Bug] Not All Mentioned Users Are Notified Again If I Change A Post Or Comment #4680
  • 🐛 [Bug] Mentions Of Users In A Post Seems Not To Send Notifications To All Of Them #4844
  • 🚀 [Feature] @all Mention for Network Admins to Inform all Network Users by a Post #6593
  • 🐛 [Bug] Backend – If one Sends Really a lot of Mentions in a Post the Backend Throws an Error #6726
  • 🚀 [Feature] Notification to all group members #7565
• User follows a user 🚀 [Feature] Get A Notification (E-Mail) If I Get A New Follower #4679
• User is reported 🚀 [Feature] [Moderation] Send Feedback to reporting User #1709
• 🚀 [Feature] Subscribe to new posts of a group #7703
• Post by a subscribed user is posted 🚀 [Feature] Notifications for new Posts of Users you follow #4284
• 🚀 [Feature] Notification - Post with a subscribed category is posted #7109
• 🚀 [Feature] Notification - Post with a subscribed tag is posted #7110
• Post is reported: notification to reporting user 🚀 [Feature] [Moderation] Send Feedback to reporting User #1709
• Comment is posted in own post
  • 🐛 [Bug] Error when commenting on anonymous post #5695
• Comment is posted in a subscribed post
  • 🚀 [Feature] Subscribe to Post #4257
  • 🚀 [Feature] A User Wants To Follow A Post #4639
• Comment in a shouted post is posted 🚀 [Feature] Subscribe to Post #4257
• Comment in a commented post is posted 🚀 [Feature] Subscribe to Post #4257
• Comment is reported - notification to reporting user 🚀 [Feature] [Moderation] Send Feedback to reporting User #1709
• Chat message for the user is posted 🚀 [Feature] Mail notification for new chat messages #6596
• Decision on a reported object is taken
  • 🚀 [Feature] [Moderation] Send Feedback to reporting User #1709
  • 🚀 [Feature] Notify Authors And Users About Decisions  #2886
  • 🚀 [Feature] Send notification to user if post was blocked #5676

Notification types

• In-network notifications
  • 🚀 [Feature] Filter, Sort and Manage Notifications as User #488
  • 🚀 [Feature] Notifications – Mark All As Read #2660
  • 🚀 [Feature] Avoid the color red for non-essential things #3086
  • 💬 [Question] Notifications page: Why back/forward buttons instead of infinite scroll? #3545
  • 🚀 [Function] Mark Notifications As Read If I Have Already Seen What I Am Being Notified About #4547
  • 🚀 [Feature] Webapp – Notification Page – Have a Link to our Notification Settings Page #4832
  • 🚀 [Feature] Notification page: Show from what group a notification originates #5587
  • 🐛 [Bug][Yunite] Adjust Design and Colors – Accumulation #6637
• E-mail
  • 🚀 [Feature] Set up some reporting on mail delivery #2501
  • Frequency: 💬 [Question] Inspirations For Notification Settings #4675
  • 🔧 [Refactor] E-Mail Templates To Be In A Single Language And Not Multi Language #4786
  • 🚀 [Feature] Add Support Link To Notification E-Mail Templates #4794
  • 🐛 [Bug] Notification E-Mail Network Link Has To Be Changed From Organization Link To Real Network Link #4843
  • 🚀 [Feature] Improve e-mail deliverability with SPF and DKIM #4845
  • 🚀 [Feature] Improve email deliverability with sender name #7240
  • 🐛 [Bug] Avoid repeating e-mail notifications #4915
  • 🚀 [Feature] Have A Second E-Mail Adress Just For Sending Notifications To Avoid Spying On E-Mail Adresses By Intrude Into The Mail Server #5285
  • 💬 [Question] Think About Adding English To Every E-Mail Template As Alternative? #5461
• Web push, WPA and mobile notification
  • 🚀 [Feature] Push Notifications On Mobile #4259
  • 🚀 [Feature] Push Notifications In Browser And Progressive Web App #4327
• RSS 🚀 [Feature] RSS support #4394

Filter

• Add an option to the filter menu that filters posts by groups that the user subscribed to

Design

Notification settings:

• Alternative e-mail address 🚀 [Feature] Have A Second E-Mail Adress Just For Sending Notifications To Avoid Spying On E-Mail Adresses By Intrude Into The Mail Server #5285
• 🚀 [Feature] Select frequency of e-mail notifications #7704
• One example each for a regular option, the category selection option and the tag selection option.

Subscribe to comments of specific post:

Subscribe to posts of a user:

Follow button replaced by subscribe button: Bell replaces tick, "subscribed" replaces "following" #3085

Subscribe to posts of a public group:

Subscribe button

Others

• 🐛 [Bug] Email notification to recipient name UNAVAILABLE #6070
• 🌟 [EPIC] Chat-Frontend #6294

Tasks

• Decide on additional notification trigger events and options (see above) including their defaults depending on user role
• Add those options to the notification settings page
• Add form items (buttons) to objects, e.g. a bell to single post page

Technical Informations

• may use a Redis worker to send e-mails?
  • see already used ioredis package

[sushidave]

@Elweyn For info: Completed this EPIC with latest notification issues.

[sushidave]

@Elweyn
For info:
New issues added, also on the priority list:
🚀 [Feature] Subscribe to new posts of a group #7703
🚀 [Feature] Select frequency of e-mail notifications #7704