Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it

Re:Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it by burntwater on Monday May 22, 2023 @05:55PM (#36037201)

> so the notification will let me know there's a conversation happening but I won't be pestered into participating

I really wish more (any?) chat programs let you know some kind of conversation was happening, but wasn't pinging you every single message. Something like every X hour(s) there's a notification that says "X messages have been received," or when a chat has been idle for an extended period of time, then after X time the first new message comes in I receive a notification for only that first message.

As is, 90% of my chat apps have notifications completely disabled, and I have to manually go in to see if anything has happened.

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Re:Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it by dabluecaboose on Monday May 22, 2023 @06:22PM (#36037435)

It's also worth mentioning how intrusive notifications have gotten.

I remember back in the Good Old Days of Android there was a notification ticker that unintrusively told me that I had gotten a notification and sampled some (or all) of the text.

Now, you can be watching a video and have 1/6th of your screen suddenly change (and repeatedly if, as mentioned, it's an active group chat)

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Re:Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it by kedean on Monday May 22, 2023 @07:52PM (#36038179)

Discord kind of does this, at least on mobile. It'll ping you the first few messages to a channel/convo, and if you ignore those it stops sending them until you open them.

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