Hey ! A rather short post but I figured I'd make a post to talk about it so that people are not surprised to see the changes if you don't follow the core dev meeting every month.
These past few weeks/months I've been spending more time on notifications of all sorts, with the blocktrades team we made a lot of changes some are invisible to you as it's mostly optimizations but some changes are going to be visible your way, I noticed that some notifications never make their way back to the correct user and needed fixing as the codebase has evolved over the initial release back in the old steem days. Some of those changes are already live if you decide to use api.syncad.com as api node.
In short, you will now get community-related notifications, this is most important for mutes, I realized that when a mod/admin fill this form the mute reason never makes it's way back to the user
Which is not a great experience as I noticed a bunch of people in communities make another post/comment asking why their previous one was muted.
I'm sorry I didn't realize that this data didn't make its way to users sooner, on the bright side, this change is retroactive so all users will see notifications about their posts that got muted.
There are two other notifications that I am working on adding: update community properties (title/description etc) and flagging a post:
These features will be enabled soon as a notification to all team members (meaning community members with those roles: moderator, admin and owner).
In order to prevent spam, we have agreed on a new limit for how many team members you can have on a community: 100. We think this is more than enough as communities average a team size of 4.5.
Worst case we will revisit this number later.
Overall I'm excited to enable more collaboration and communication between community teams and the people using it. What other things would you like to see from communities ?
Howo
