Official announcements and happiness!
A few things...
I apologize if there have already been requests about this, but I had a couple of things I wanted to unload about:
- When someone creates a post to a community you are a leader in, can we get a notification?
- If someone comments on a post in a community you are a leader in (even if you didn't create the post), can we get a notification?
- When I click on "create link", it inserts the link thing where ever. Not where my cursor is, not the last place I typed. I almost hulked out on my keyboard today because it was aggrevating me.
- Mobile (not app) - you can't insert a picture into your comment, there is no Aa text box.
- (EDIT) Will we ever get smilies?
That's all I can think of right now. Sorry for complaining - I love you all and I apprciate all of your hard work on this wonderfulwonderful site!




Hi!
For #1 — if you have leader notifications turned on in your account settings, you will get emailed every time there's a new post in your community. We'll be adding in-app/on-site notifications as well as a part of a much larger notifications update @Erin has been hard at work on, but we since we didn't have a way for people to customize which notifications they get on the site, we didn't want to spam people who have larger communities or just don't want those notifications popping up, so it was only email based for now.
For the comments, I don't think that would be as easy to add, as it won't scale very effectively as we grow and start getting much larger discussions, but perhaps we could build a comments-only view where you can just easily view all the comments in your community by newest or something?
I'm not sure I understand #3—can you give me a screenshot of when/where you're creating links and what it's doing instead?
It's intentional that we don't have the
Aaon mobile, because the editor doesn't play nice on mobile, unfortunately. :/ And people as a whole just use it much less anyways. The markdown formatting still works; you just don't have all the options for it to automatically do it for you. We'll be adding the option for you to insert images and gifs on mobile web the same way you can on the apps soon though!Naturally the link thing is cooperating now and I can't show you. -.-
@Zork Back me up, its a real thing...
Zork? Zork who?
ZORK
Also <3 Thank you for always taking the time to respond thoroughly and quickly to all of our requests/complaints/feedback. I reallyreally love being here on Imzy. :)
:) Thanks for being a part of everything! We couldn't do it without you!
Ssssillllyyy question, but push notifications are for your phone, right (as in, if I had the imzy app, I would get messages from imzy in my notification bar/dropdown on my phone)?
Right now, I have push notifications set for everything, including community leader notifications. If its meant for app/phone, then that makes sense why I didn't receive anything. If its not, then maybe its a bug?
Yes, push notifications are for the app. What kind of device are you on? You want to get added to our app tests?
I do! I think I requested it before, but I assumed not everyone got accepted.
Right now I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S4, but I'm in the process of moving to an S7.
5 if we ever get smilies I'd say for them to be separate from text, it annoys me when you type :) and it corrects to a smilie.
By smilies do you mean emoji? We have emoji support, but it's not super intuitive. It works similar to how slack does, where you hit
:and then start typing what you want, and it will give you options, like this:If you're on a mac, you can also hit
ctrl+cmd+spaceto pull up your computer's emoji keyboard. Not sure if there's a PC equivalent to this.And if you're on mobile, you can just use your default emoji keyboard that comes with your phone.
👍 All these years I never knew this about Mac 😎
Tbh I just learned it a couple months ago!
😄
ooooo ok thank you!!
Where does this happen? Not on the regular desktop site...
I think it might be for mac.
#1 & #2
Lol the poor Imzy team is going to think we'll hollering at them with all this gigantic font.
Fixed it. If you put a \ in front of a format symbol it won't register.
NICE! We're like the Columbus' of formatting today....discovering what's already been discovered! XD
on #2, you can follow all comments in any post. Just click the little bell thingy under the comment box.
Yeah I think based on what @Kaela said, I will update my leader notifications and then should there be posts to my community that didn't originate with me, I'll just follow them manually.
Copy pasta:
For #1 — if you have leader notifications turned on in your account settings, you will get emailed every time there's a new post in your community. We'll be adding in-app/on-site notifications as well as a part of a much larger notifications update Erin has been hard at work on, but we since we didn't have a way for people to customize which notifications they get on the site, we didn't want to spam people who have larger communities or just don't want those notifications popping up, so it was only email based for now.
That's what I was hoping for. I've been getting emails but I feel like it would be a lot better if it was on-site/in-app too. Glad to hear it's coming.
3 is an issue I've had for a while now.
How did you make your font so large??
oops -- i didn't mean to!
i put a hashtag in front of "3" to indicate "number" and i guess it took that as a formatting mark.
Damn...good to know.
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EVERYBODY LISTEN TO ME!!!!!!!!!!