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New feature on codeforces is very annoying
By aryanc403, history, 6 years ago, In English

Notification, when someone in your friend list writes a comment or creates a blog, is too annoying. Can someone make it opt-in?
/cc geranazavr555 MikeMirzayanov

Update 1: Apologies to 1595 people who got pinged due to this blog.
Update 2: I just realised codechef advertised their upcoming contest to 9298 people without spending a single penny. GG.

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6 years ago, hide # |
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I completely agree, though, on the other hand, it is extremely amusing that tourist has the power to ping 33 thousand people the second he decides to write a comment. (Apologies to the 517 people I just pinged to make a silly joke — this is literally my dumb ping copypasta but expanded to a ridiculous scale.)

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So, that's why people write comments and blogs with alt accounts.

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By the way, how does it work exactly? It seems like not every comment gives a ping. mango_lassi wrote 5 comments last night, yet I got 3 notifications.

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Aplogies to 320 people I pinged to to apologize to them

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didn't know it existed

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I was just so surprised with the thought — "how did I get 7 personal messages!!" XD

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Don't do that
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I was thinking about it some days ago, about writing my own plugin. I think it's pretty cool. But making it optional is a very good idea.

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I don't know I should be happy that I haven't been pinged yet or be depressed cause I don't have any friend :(

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To the 5k people pinged by this, hope you have a nice day, and remember to drink enough water :)

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Having a notification for a blog post written by your friend is okay but having a notification for every single comment your friend makes on codeforces is just annoying. Moreover, the person who is triggering the notification i.e someone like me making a comment on a particular blog might feel like he is getting watched for every single activity he does on codeforces. Though, I do feel that this will stop people from making meaningless comments on blog posts.

I think there should be an additional setting allowing people to watch you which will enable your friends for getting a notification for every single comment/activity you make on codeforces. And then you can have filters in your notification to find the relevant notifications you might be interested in.

But above all, I don't think there is a need to make these kind of changes on codeforces and a roll back to the previous notification implementation would be nice because having so many notifications kind of makes codeforces more like a social networking website which codeforces definitely isn't.

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Sorry, actually it was opened by mistake. But I don't touch the system before the round ends. I'll fix it after it. Thanks for your feedback.

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Few more features to it before you can figure out your entire friend list.

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Haha, that's crazy. Hello my friends!

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Just a trolling comment to ping my followers.

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Random comment :)

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haha made you look

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Like it to let me know if you got pinged just by writing this comment. XD

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Peer pressure of making random comment continues, just to disturb 921 people.

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Just to distrub 167 people! :v

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Sad, this feature will disappear before I can get the chance to farm upvotes with it.

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LOL, funny bug.

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Spoiler
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Can geranazavr555 please create a feed for friends' comment or blog instead of pings? I believe it will be much, much better!

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I'm not apologising.

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hey hi people who added me xD

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