OldManCorley comments on Am I automatically subscribed to new subs when they are made?

Am I automatically subscribed to new subs when they are made?

submitted 5 years ago by happysmash27 from self.SaidIt

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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (3 children)

I think the standard model is the best, there's a set of standard subs that new members are subscribed to and no auto subscribe. This encourage the culture of subs the admins promote through a curated "default" set.

Yeah that's not a bad idea. We originally included everything to make sure that no one missed anything, since the community was so tiny back then. However we also then later put the /home page (which is a copy of /all with just a few subs like s/ads removed) as the front page to accomplish the same thing, so on reflection I suppose it is a bit redundant. I'd be OK using the more standard model as long as /home (basically mirroring /all) is the front page still, like you said.

We might just change the policy for new users and leave existing users unaffected. I think that'd be the easiest way to make that change if we were to do so.

So we're talking about changing these two things exactly:

Have a small set of default subs that new users are subscribed to, instead of them being subscribed to all subs
Create a 'auto-subscribe to new subs' checkbox in user preferences

I think we could do that. Item 1 is easy to change, I could do it in 10 mins if I have the list of subs that should be default. We'll have to decide on that I guess. Like /s/pics and /s/technology and /s/worldpolitics and /s/worldnews and /s/news... something like that. Maybe 20-30 in total?

Item 2 will take a little work, probably going to need d3rr's help for that one

[–]OldManCorley 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (2 children)

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (1 child)

I'm remembering now that the reason we did it was the idea that subscriptions would be opt-out, so you could just unsubscribe from the ones you don't like, rather than subscribing to the ones you do like.

I guess we could add a "subscribe to all" option in the user preferences just like there's an "unsubscribe to all" option. That way people can do an opt-out subscription method if they prefer.

I'm going to talk this over with d3rr in the coming days, then if he thinks it's a good idea then I'll make that post to the community. I've already written it :) This is the default list so far: