Notifications with attitude

[crypto]

I never paid much attention before to the breathless exclamation points accompanying my email notifications when someone added me as a friend on LJ -- probably because they don't come in bursts or waves.

But as my gmail inbox fills up with the Dreamwidth equivalents over the last 10 hours recreating my LJ social network, there's something comical about all the '!!!' in a row. Is the Dreamwidth autonotifier shocked, or delighted for me, or trying to warn me of imminent danger? Maybe emoticons would help.

If they weren't busy with their push to move into open beta, I'd put in a feature request for an opt-in random editorial commentary generator to accompany each subscribe & access notification:

____ subscribed to your journal! Funny, I never would have thought you two would have much in common.

____ granted you access to their journal! Just FYI, beware of tl;dr and TMI ahead.

____ subscribed to your journal! I'm not saying they're a stalker, but mama always told me that where there are persistent rumors of restraining orders, there's fire....

____ granted you access to their journal! Hey, you've finally made it to the big leagues -- now don't screw it up, 'cause you won't get a second chance with that one.

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[sara]

I've spent the last week watching the little "2"s pop up on Thunderbird and feeling gleeful because I was sure it was someone else coming over and, yes, reassembling the ole social network.

But the last doubleheader was a notice of new rulemaking from the Mortuary and Cemetery Board and a note from the state treasurer saying that they're going to sue Oppenheimer for mismanaging the state college fund. Definitely an "oh, phooey" moment.

[crypto]

Eek. My notifications get shunted to an underused gmail account where they primarily mingle with posts from an international activist email list which has also been pretty doom and gloom recently.

(You're serrana on LJ, right?)

[sara]

Heh. All roads lead to Rome, and half of gmail forwards to my in-box. Or maybe it just seems that way.

Yep, that's me. *waves*

[sixbeforelunch]

*giggles* Oh that would be perfect. I suspect any time I grant access it should come with warning number 2.

[crypto]

It could be like fortune cookies, where you could tick off a box add "in bed" at the end of your notification messages!