[Discussion] Connecting matched partners #77
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[priority] high
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[state] in-discussion
This issue is being considered and we'd welcome your thoughts and ideas
[tech] infrastructure
Resolution is likely to involve infrastructure
[tech] javascript
Resolution is likely to involve JavaScript
[tech] meteorjs
Resolution is likely to require basic understanding of MeteorJS
[type] feature
A new feature or significant change to site functionality
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Feature Story:
As a matched user, I should be able to connect with my matched partner intuitively.
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The original idea stated that matches will be emailed by the platform so that their personal email addresses are anonymized. A matched user can then reply to the email and an email chain will be created:
I think there's an in between layer here that handles the emails from the server side, but that seems very murky to me currently.
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I want to propose that we explore alternative routes as multiway emails are really difficult to manage + outside variables that can potentially send emails from our platform to a user's spam folder, then missing connections.
I think it might be a more doable challenge to build out an in-platform messaging feature as we can control the environments more proactively, and also be able lean in more on Meteor's own reactive system (data on the wire philosophy).
We would still need to use emails as a form of notifications, but at least that way we've cut that down to a one way flow (our only responsibility is to notify users, we don't have to listen for incoming messages).
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Relative issue for reference: #8
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