Notify author if someone replies to any comment on their post

[rpalo]

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Currently, if someone comments on a comment on my post (replying to someone else), I don't get notified, so I end up either having to check in/refresh or miss a lot of conversations I didn't know were happening.

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It would be nice if I got notified anytime a comment happened on a thread on my articles.

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Even if it was just a single bundled notification that said "You've had 10 new comments on your article today!" that would be nice.

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[maestromac]

Thank you for this feature request @rpalo . The current implementation was done to reduce unwanted notification but I can relate on why some author would like to be aware of all the comments. I think ultimately we might want to offer our authors the option to receive some or all comment notification.

@benhalpern / @jess do you have any thought on this?

[rpalo]

Another idea I just thought of, but haven't decided if it's better or worse: what if users had the ability to "subscribe" to a post, so they'd get notifications for all comments. Then, authors could be automatically subscribed to their own posts? Or not? Or choose?

[Zhao-Andy]

@rpalo I'm in favor of having subscriptions to a post. Like you said, this would give authors the choice of whether or not they want to receive notifications for every comment or not.

Related: #192

[rpalo]

Ah, yeah that's essentially exactly what I want. I'm happy to close this issue and just +1 that issue if that's preferred.

[stale]

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[Zhao-Andy]

Not stale

[maestromac]

Resolved with #2233