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

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

We can do whatever we need to here. I suggest:

  1. Signup page gets a new checkbox "auto-subscribe to all subs" (can be checked or unchecked by default)
  2. If you auto-subscribe to all, you will also be auto subscribed to all new subs (a new feature, and we can force catch up existing users who are subscribed to 100+ subs)
  3. Add a new preference "subscription model" with choices "auto-subscribe all" or "manual subscriptions"
  4. The "unsubscribe from all subs" preference can stay in place and work with either "subscription model" preference

So then we support both approaches pretty good and just have to decide what the default approach should be.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Sounds good to me, let's do it. The only thing missing is a 'default sub list' option for 1, for the 20-30 handpicked subs. So we really need 3 options: All, none, default list

Other than that, it sounds very good!

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I think we can combine 'none' and 'default list'. If someone wants none they can come in and choose "unsubscribe from all subs" or manually unsub fom 30 subs. We can offer 3 choices but it will make my mom's head spin, especially if she has to choose from those on signup :) If there's a single subscriptions preference with 3 choices that'd be okay but I think signup should be straight forward.

edit: whoops I forgot about chat I'll get that going again.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Okay, that works too! I agree no 3 choices on signup. But I just am thinking that tbh only about 1% of users are going to use the subscriptions as long as it's not the main page, so I don't know if it's even worth putting the checkbox on the sign up page. We could just put it all on the user preferences page.

Yeah sorry about chat, it was doing this weird thing where I'd start everything up and it would work perfectly for about 3-5 mins, then thelounge would crash and it would 503 the chat box. Then I'd restart thelounge and it'd work again for another 3-5 mins, then crash again. I couldn't figure out why, do you have any ideas? Is there some secret sauce command? lol

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The 3-5 minute thing sounds like TheLounge was already running and a second server instance got started, just guessing though.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Could be. I did start it a second time, but I only did that because it wasn't working the first time and one of the processes wasn't appearing in the aux grep command that was supposed to be there, so it seemed it wasn't properly started or something

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Dang well the first TheLounge start should have worked if Unreal was running. I'll report back if I notice anything weird.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds good man! Good luck

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Actually thinking about it more, maybe the 3 options could be in the user preferences and not on the signup page. I think we can just put all users to default, but give the 3 options in the user preferences page. We don't want to overcomplicate the user signup process, especially for a feature that few will likely use (as long as /home is /all instead of /subscribed) so I think it might be easy to just put it all in the user preferences page and default new users to the default list.

And then also add a "auto-subscribe to new subs" option in the user preferences too. That'd cover everything I think.

So basically the choice to reset subscription list to (all, none, default) and the auto-subscribe to new subs checkbox. Both just added to the user preferences page.

Just thinking aloud here, if you have a better plan, go for it

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Sounds good, I like it. Nice and simple and expected Reddit-like behavior for new users.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah exactly. Sweet deal

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

But declare it in the registration. "By default you will be subbed to all subs. Other options exist in your preferences." Otherwise you'll have new Redditers always asking about it.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We're talking about hem being subscribed to default subs not all subs

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh. Right.

Meh. I guess.