E-mail notifications with more detailed Subject.
I recieve notifications from various artists, some of them with a lot of activity and changes in their setlists, so I receive many e-mail notifications, but the only 3 different subjects of these e-mail notifications I get are just:
"New setlist comment"
"Setlist added" and
"Setlist updated"
My request is that if stelist.fm could possibly add some of the information included in the body of the e-mail such as ARTIST / VENUE / DATE / TOUR to the e-mail subject too, so it could be easier to organize the Inbox and find specific notifications faster.
Thank you very much in advance for considering this suggestion.
Best regards.
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Adminsfussenegger (Admin, setlist.fm) commented
I think that threading preferences vary among users, so there won't be a definitive answer. I myself would prefer one thread per setlist since I could check all changes at once and have them marked as read.
And although I understand that not everybody is using Gmail it's still more than one third of our users. So it's certainly important to consider.
Apart from the subject, there is the "In-Reply-To" header that is normally used for threading. Gmail does obviously apply some additional heuristics though. They want to detect people simply using the Reply To function as a shortcut for the address book and make does messages a new conversation despite of the "In-Reply-To" header.
But anyway it will be done, having hundreds of notifications as separate mails will always be cumbersome. Therefore I'd rather invest time in an alternative notification system anyway.
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leglessmoof commented
Basically, my main concern is to make as few mouseclicks as possible when opening all my notifications. Right now, if I receive 100 notifications (34 setlist added, 33 setlist updated, 33 new comments), I need 103 mouseclicks to open all 100 links. This is because GMail would group all the "setlist added" into one thread, all the "setlist updated" into one thread, etc.
If Setlist.fm made the changes that you suggested, GMail would no longer group the messages into threads (unless the artist/venue/date/tour was the same). So in the worst case scenario, I would need 200 mouseclicks to open 100 links.
I don't believe GMail has the capability to force messages with different subjects into a single thread. It will only do this if the subject is the same.
I understand that not everyone uses GMail, and not everyone cares about minimal mouseclicks like I do. I am just saying what works best for me.
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jgg commented
Dear all,
First of all thank you for your comments and taking into consideration my proposal.
Please think that not all SETLIST.FM users are also GMAIL users, as it is my case.
And, even in GMAIL, in the "Setlist updated" thread there would be a mix of all the updates of all your artists.
Maybe, it would be better to title e-mail notifications with "[ARTIST] setlist activity", so in that case you would have a thread per ARTIST.
Thanks again.
Best regards.
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Adminsfussenegger (Admin, setlist.fm) commented
I'm not completely sure but I believe that it's possible to influence grouping even if the subject changes. Theoretically, there could be threads per artist or setlist rather than per action. So there's no need to keep subjects consistent to guarantee grouping.
But personally, I'd recommend using filters and labels to all Gmail users anyway.
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leglessmoof commented
There is a benefit to having only 3 different subjects. If you use an e-mail client like GMail, which parses all messages with the same subject into 1 thread, then the consistent subject names lets your inbox be a lot less cluttered.
I personally do not want 30 different e-mail threads in my inbox, which is what would happen if information was added to the subject. I'd rather have 3 different e-mail threads, with each thread having 10 messages, which is the way it is now.