Simplify notification and subscription process (also for tags)

[flosse]

Board for Subscriptions: https://github.com/orgs/kartevonmorgen/projects/4?fullscreen=true

Prerequisites

• Use an external mail service Draft a new E-Mail gateway openfairdb#259
• Daily/hourly crawler for subscription- & notification service(s) openfairdb#202
• Extend subscription and notification service openfairdb#194
• Decouple post-processing from requests for Notifications openfairdb#166 and

Target Group

Only a few power users will use the subscriptions, but those are the users, that improve the quality. So If we empower them, we improve the map qualitiy to all users, thats why it is a feature für all users.

Problem

• Notifications are difficult to activate and if they come, there are too many with little intrest. To get more people beeing involved in mapping and ensuring content quality
• Its much too complicated to delete or to modify a subscription.

Solution

• Add Subscribe-Button #443

Just allow to subscribe to any search and map view

• Rather usefull i think would be the option to subscribe to hashtags. So on the page where you choose the area, you also have the searchline to put in some keywords and tags. Especially if there are coming the events. But also like this it would help the theme-pilots to subscribe to alle csa-projects in the world. but only csa. Tag-Subscription #5

• Subscribe to single entries, also while editing. Subscribe to a single entry while editing or adding € kartevonmorgen#635

• We should definitly include Positive Impact Ratings in the notification-System. Send email also when entry got a rating #7 (More imprtant than the question, if an entry is on the map, is the question, how good it is rated. )

• Notify users at maximum once a day: Only send notification Mail after there was no editing for at least 30 min. Otherwise we spam users too much with notifications if we send it evrey minute and someone is just trying how the map works... Maybe even just once a day send notifications only daily (maybe as summary) #9

• Unsybscribe link in every notification-mail Add link to unsubscribe in notification mail #4 . Each subscription is saved so you can delete every single subscription with an link in the mail.

Fazit

• from David:
  However I find one menu better: simpler, I don't need to search where I can find something but everything is in one place, the Kartenausschnitt abonnieren-thing doesn't really fit under share, I'm rather "sharing" it with myself, and we might have more features in the future that don't really fit in these two categories and if we put them there anyway it gets confusing for users.
• Helmut:
  I think the Hamburger Menu contains everything, that leaves the map. The sharing menu has everything, that works on the map with popups.
  As subscription is much simpler in the future and works as a popup, it should be in the sharing button.

[flosse]

@navid-kalaei FYI: kartevonmorgen/openfairdb#259 would be your point to start with a more complex notification system.

[navid-kalaei]

Thank you so much @flosse. I'll follow the PR kartevonmorgen/openfairdb#259 and it's following commits 🙏 🎉

[wellemut]

Beautiful new subscription popup on the mapa project (Belarus) https://mapa.falanster.by/#map
Here is my feedback:

1. even for me I needed to think a while till I knew, what I have to select to subscribe the right thing. The Radio-Button with three options seems to me just confusing. Also: What happens, if the user chooses "Initiative" but no inititiative is selected? What if he chooses TagsGeo but no tag is used? Put away theses buttons and let just subscrieb to what ever is visible on the map behind the popup.

2. Cancel-Button can be removed as well.
   

diglabby/mapa#6

[wellemut]

Here is a schema how it should be build in the future.

• Just depending on API call for recently changed entries
• no backend login needed