Email notifications are super useful, but any chance it would be possible to create an option that would take all of the less urgent notifications by league and combine into a single email maybe every few hours or end of the day or something? Perhaps cuts, auctions started/ended, etc, which might be easier to digest in periodic lists than frequent individual notifications, and don’t require immediate action. Guessing most folks would still want instant notifications for trades, messages, etc. Not a huge deal, and no idea how hard it would be, but just a thought especially on days like today when the notifications can be overwhelming to keep up with especially if you have multiple leagues!
I have no idea how feasible it is, but something like a twice daily digest would be an awesome addition.
I’m not particularly interested in doing this, it would be a ton of work and would increase email costs by a significant amount.
Fair enough … didn’t really have any idea what it would entail, but thought I’d toss it out there since it’s been in the back of my mind for a long time.
Well you guys weren’t kidding, we are sending our most emails ever and Gmail has decided our increased volume means we are spamming today. This should fix itself in the next day and sometime soon I’ll look into reducing the individual emails.
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We can blame everyone who makes their cuts one-by-one!
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I’m wondering if anything has changed on this front in the four years since this was originally pitched. I like knowing what’s going on, but it can be a lot of clutter receiving the individual emails. Appreciate it!
This is definitely on a list. I get so many Ottoneu emails! It’s very easy to zone out and ignore them and then realize you missed out on a player. Very much not what I want to happen. So, I’ll continue to think about this.
One thought in the meantime that might have an easy solution is could the phrasing of some of the emails be tweaked so that all the key info is visible from a phone email inbox without having to open up the email itself?
for example in my iPhone email inbox I see something like this:
Auction completed for Luis Lara in This is…
Auction completed in This is Fantasy Baseball for Luis Lara MIL OF Winning bid:
… But in order to see who won the bid and the price I have to open up the email. Would it be possible to rearrange the phrasing so that the price and winning salary are up front and visible directly from the inbox so I can more quickly skim through the various emails and only open it if I want more info?
Subject lines are really limited and messing with them will mess up people’s filters and whatnot. Not sure that is a good path, but I’ll come up with something.
Maybe something like Lyft started doing with receipts where you just consolidate? I see earlier in the thread you say that twice daily “digests” would increase costs, but not sure if that’s quite the same thing I’m thinking as mine would only trigger if there is information to send.
The thought would be once an auction has started or a drop is made, a 12 hour clock starts - from there, any auction started or drop would fall into an email queue and then an email sends and the clock resets. Ideally 24 hours would be best, but with the waiver period being 24 hours, probably better to have 12.
Just a thought
I already said 3 times I’m on it guys.