Homepage: Implement "Set a Reminder"

[jeffposnick]

Something that would work for multiple flavors of calendaring backend, so presumably using a generic format like an .ics download. Need to play around a bit to see what gives a decent user experience across multiple browsers.

[jeffposnick]

@crhym3 and I looked into this a bit, with an assist from some of the Android experts.

• Serving an .ics file with the proper Content-Type response header will trigger the desired "Add to Calendar" flow on iOS devices. 😄
• The same .ics file will start a download using Android Chrome, and the file won't open with Android Calendar. (You can try our this behavior using this public .ics file.) The Android folks are puzzled by this, because the Calendar app's manifest says that it should handle .ics files. But it doesn't work. 😞
• The .ics triggers a download on OS X Chrome, and opening it will launch the default calendar program (on OS X, Calendar.app). 😑
• Linking to a public Google Calendar event will work, though if the user isn't signed in to their Google Account they'll have to sign in first before they can add it to their Google Calendar. The bigger problem is that the event's reminder settings default to whatever your account's default is, so you might end up with a calendar event but no reminder. 😑

So... there's a way of creating a good experience for iOS users. For other users, there are a bunch of mediocre experiences.

Not sure where that leaves us. @ebidel, @paullewis, how important is this requirement? Do you guys have any other ideas as to how this could be implemented?

[monicabagagem]

Android users are high priority here as well.

Can we create separate CTAs for each type of user that handles things in
the backend differently (specific to their use case):
Set reminder on Google Calendar
Set reminder on Calendar

This is what we did with the invitations for the FORM conference:

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Jeffrey Posnick notifications@github.com
wrote:

@crhym3 https://github.com/crhym3 and I looked into this a bit, with an
assist from some of the Android experts.

• Serving an .ics file with the proper Content-Type response header
  will trigger the desired "Add to Calendar" flow on iOS devices. [image:
  😄]
• The same .ics file will start a download using Android Chrome, and
  the file won't open with Android Calendar. (You can try our this behavior
  using this public .ics file
  https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/en.usa%23holiday@group.v.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics.)
  The Android folks are puzzled by this, because the Calendar app's manifest
  says that it should handle .ics files. But it doesn't work. [image:
  😞]
• The .ics triggers a download on OS X Chrome, and opening it will
  launch the default calendar program (on OS X, Calendar.app). [image:
  😑]
• Linking to a public Google Calendar event
  https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NjZpb2Ztc2FqOHZmOWtlMjN2YTFuM2thNWcgamVmZnlAZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&tmsrc=jeffy%40google.com
  will work, though if the user isn't signed in to their Google Account
  they'll have to sign in first before they can add it to their Google
  Calendar. The bigger problem is that the event's reminder settings default
  to whatever your account's default is, so you might end up with a calendar
  event but no reminder. [image: 😑]

So... there's a way of creating a good experience for iOS users. For other
users, there are a bunch of mediocre experiences.

Not sure where that leaves us. @ebidel https://github.com/ebidel,
@paullewis https://github.com/paullewis, how important is this
requirement? Do you guys have any other ideas as to how this could be
implemented?

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[x1ddos]

This is how meetup.com does it:

[paullewis]

I'd like to avoid the options flow if possible. You want a reminder, ideally we should be able to serve the right thing. Does Calendar on Android intercept the URL and switch to the app?

[x1ddos]

@paullewis, I agree. It was just for a comparison.

Unfortunately, Calendar app on Android doesn't intercept *.ics, *.vcs, webcal://... or any other combinations that we've tried with @jeffposnick and rhyndman :(

[paullewis]

So to confirm there's no way to externally launch calendar on Android?

[x1ddos]

It seems that way. Unless someone from the Android team will find an existing bug or submit a new one, they'll fix and update the app before the launch.

[monicabagagem]

Since we don't have sign-in in phase 1, we'll have to drop:

• the "Set a reminder" in the countdown section of the Home page
• the "Notify me about 2015 events" in the Extended section of the Offsite
  page

We'll see if/how to add these back in for Phase 2.

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:54 PM, alex notifications@github.com wrote:

It seems that way. Unless someone from the Android team will find an
existing bug or submit a new one, they'll fix and update the app before the
launch.

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[monicabagagem]

We also need to remove the "set a reminder" CTA from the Registration page

[ebidel]

The links are removed. We'll revisit in Phase 2

[ebidel]

Update on this. Since we're adding the keynote and AH to the user's myschedule by default, we're going to remove this button. It doesn't make sense to have it anymore if you're already subscribed for the keynote notification.

[monicabagagem]

I think we should still leave this since it's likely that a lot of people won't have notifications turned on so even tho we have it by default in My Schedule, they won't get the notification for it.

This would be an extra reminder to turn on notifications.

[ebidel]

@crhym3 how do you want to handle saving this on the backend? We can treat it as bookmarking the keynote. By default, we'll have that in the users session list, so maybe this is just a button to enable notifications. cc @jeffposnick

[x1ddos]

yeah, bookmarking the keynote (just send a PUT
/api/v1/user/schedule/keynote, it won't hurt) + enabling notifications
(chrome permission wise and api/notify) seems like the perfect action for
"set a reminder".

i guess the button should not be visible when a user has both keynote in
the bookmarks and notifications enabled.
On 23 Apr 2015 3:31 am, "Eric Bidelman" notifications@github.com wrote:

@crhym3 https://github.com/crhym3 how do you want to handle saving this
on the backend? We can treat it as bookmarking the keynote. By default,
we'll have that in the users session list, so maybe this is just a button
to enable notifications. cc @jeffposnick https://github.com/jeffposnick

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[monicabagagem]

Just wanted to clarify:
-- Keynote is added to My Schedule by default and will start at 9:30am. Users who have notifications turned on, should get a notification 10 min before.
-- "Set a reminder" should add a separate reminder for the beginning of I/O, which is actually at 9am with a pre-Keynote show. When a user sets a reminder for I/O tho, ideally, they will see a notification the day before letting them know I/O is starting soon.

Is this possible?