I enjoy getting notifications when my friends make changes to their OCs. I think it would be great if we could implement the same thing for personal profiles! Of course, it wouldn't be a big priority. But I've noticed several RPers (including myself) like to add our own "RP ROE" and character summaries to our profiles. It would be convenient to know when people have made adjustments to those sort of things. Maybe this could work with widgets? "RP Rules", "OC Summaries", "Availability/Online hours", things of that nature? I'm unfamiliar with website design, so I'm afraid I don't know how complicated this would be to include 
(and in turn, if it would be worth the trouble)
(and in turn, if it would be worth the trouble)
The character widgets that you get updated on only pertain to new journal entries, gallery images and character connections. It has been suggested before to notify people of updates in text based widgets from character profiles, but the reason this isn't really viable is because there's no way to tell what is considered a proper update worthy of a notification. That's why I don't think player profile widgets/notifications will work out.
If you fix 3 typos on 3 separate occasions, does that mean 3 notifications? What about testing how text looks within the profile? The preview button doesn't always give an accurate so you have to submit and it view it live. (I save my profile a dozen times just to make code turn out alright)
Kim's rejected notification suggestions like this in the past for similar reasons. I don't know if she still feels this way about it, but I think it would create chaos in the notifications if implemented.
If you fix 3 typos on 3 separate occasions, does that mean 3 notifications? What about testing how text looks within the profile? The preview button doesn't always give an accurate so you have to submit and it view it live. (I save my profile a dozen times just to make code turn out alright)
Kim's rejected notification suggestions like this in the past for similar reasons. I don't know if she still feels this way about it, but I think it would create chaos in the notifications if implemented.
Sanne wrote:
If you fix 3 typos on 3 separate occasions, does that mean 3 notifications? What about testing how text looks within the profile? The preview button doesn't always give an accurate so you have to submit and it view it live. (I save my profile a dozen times just to make code turn out alright)
I'd thought about that, I do the same thing! I agree it would be unwise to have notifications made when the profile itself is edited. The only way I could think of working around that (to get notifications of specific things) is to have specific widgets made. But you're right, the issue still applies :x I guess the best thing for it is to just check the pages of RP partners from time to time.
Libertine wrote:
I'd thought about that, I do the same thing! I agree it would be unwise to have notifications made when the profile itself is edited. The only way I could think of working around that (to get notifications of specific things) is to have specific widgets made. But you're right, the issue still applies :x I guess the best thing for it is to just check the pages of RP partners from time to time.
One thing I recall being suggested is having a journal of sorts where you can post entries about updates and other things, but journals were an issue of their own I think. I'm not sure, there was something about them, I can't remember if Kim supported them or not. I think it tied in with the topics where people went "I'm leaving for 3 days but then I'll be back, I'm just posting in the forum to let you know", which was a bit of an issue.
A player journal widget would cover your suggestion really well and I do see some merit in it, just not sure out the pros and cons weigh out for Kim!
To recap: No, we'll probably never ever have alerts when text widgets are updated. There may in the future be more widgets that do really specific things that people are unlikely to update a thousand times in a sitting that give specific notifications. I'm not sure what those widgets would be at present.
Play times and the like are probably more useful on player profiles than on character profiles, anon characters aside. Anyone with more than one character will probably appreciate not having to update playtimes in a bunch of places. This was discussed in relation to the problem of people posting that they were going away for the weekend (or sometimes even an afternoon!) on the smalltalk forums, resulting in nearly half the topics there being about people being away (and making the site look emptier than it actually is as a result). We never quite worked out the perfect solution to this yet, though.
Play times and the like are probably more useful on player profiles than on character profiles, anon characters aside. Anyone with more than one character will probably appreciate not having to update playtimes in a bunch of places. This was discussed in relation to the problem of people posting that they were going away for the weekend (or sometimes even an afternoon!) on the smalltalk forums, resulting in nearly half the topics there being about people being away (and making the site look emptier than it actually is as a result). We never quite worked out the perfect solution to this yet, though.
Kim wrote:
Play times and the like are probably more useful on player profiles than on character profiles, anon characters aside. Anyone with more than one character will probably appreciate not having to update playtimes in a bunch of places.
Oh, I'd meant for the widgets to be added to the player profiles, not character pages. Just a thought! I appreciate both of your explanations.
Oh! Well then. 
Yes, we may end up with something along these lines in the future, then!
Yes, we may end up with something along these lines in the future, then!
Good to know 
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