Re:Ask HN: I am building a bugtracker. What would you like t...
by noir_lord on Saturday April 24, 2021 @02:00AM
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I leave them enabled but email only, then I set up filters for each service to move it to */automated/jira directories automatically.
That way my inbox stays clear but I can speed run through first thing to make sure I’ve not missed anything, I also ruthless cull anything unrelated to my work, so any notification a project I don’t work on gets deleted.
This reduces several thousand emails a month to about 6 I actually need to see in my inbox.
The default is insanity though I agree.
E.G: HN doesn't push information on me. I can answer to you now because I know that at this very moment, I don't need to focus on something hard. But this afternoon, I will, and so I don't want to be disturbed and will just close this tab. Voilà, no distraction.
I don't need to be notified bugs: I don't work on them in real time. In the morning, I select the ones I will work on. New ones have little relevance to me until the next morning, which a dashboard will show me.
I need notifications on things like my clients calling me or my server failing. Those are the stuff that I need in real time.
The very first thing I do when registering with a new service, especially corporate/social ones is to go to the notification settings and disable everything but the direct message stuff.