Glad this is on your radar. It came up again today. Here’s more related feedback from my community as I am exploring with them how we can take advantage of messages:
Also, what will it look like when these are pushed to email? I find it tricky to tell who else is included in a PM chain when they are pushed to Gmail. What I’ve started doing is seeing them there and then going into Discourse to check out the context, lest I respond to something that others shouldn’t get. It would be nice to know immediately when it’s pushed to Gmail if we go this route especially for quick readability.
What this makes me realize is that it would be handy to be informed in the email why you were notified about a given topic or message. E.g. as relevant one of the following would be added ahead of the “To stop receiving…” text.
- You received this because you were mentioned.
- You received this because your
@foogroup was mentioned. - You received this because you are watching
#foocategory. - You received this because you are watching
#footag.
I don’t especially like the idea of making this text longer so maybe there’s another way to indicate context, e.g. by adding it to the subject line or heading.