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Future planning: what user preferences would be useful?
I am starting to think about user preferences. This won't happen for a while, but I'd like to gather input so we can start thinking about a functional design.
Currently a user has a single account across our network. When you edit your description or your display name or your blog link, those changes apply on all communities where you have a presence. Similarly, when you link a Stack Exchange account (on communities that support data import), what you're really linking is your SE network account -- you only need to link it once.
User profiles have a very small preferences section now -- there's one preference, to turn keyboard shortcuts on or off, which I believe is a global preference. We've had a request for a per-community preference for a default license -- you might ask why per-community, but it makes sense to me that if you are hobbyist photographer but a professional writer, you might want different settings on those two communities.
The possibility of per-category preferences has also been raised, again with licenses.
We need to understand the potential use cases before we design something. Knowing whether there are 3 or 30 things, for instance, or knowing whether preferences are mostly global with a few exceptions or mostly local or all over the place, makes a difference.
My question to y'all is: what kinds of things should be settable as user preferences, and with what scoping (global, community, category)? Some suggestions I've heard (please feel free to develop these in answers) include:
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default license -- per community, maybe per category
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whether your votes are public or private by default (assuming we implement optional public votes; we don't have this now) -- per community
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enable keyboard shortcuts - global?
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just to acknowledge it before deferring it: dark mode :-) (yeah maybe someday, not now, presumably global)
What else should we be considering?
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Enable/disable display of Hot Notable Network Questions. [If we ever have the Notable Network Questions at all.]
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Assuming the favourite tags per community feature gets implemented, then how about some manner of social media-like "feed"/start page?
Where all activity involving yourself pops up.A compilation of customized relevant information: new answers to your questions, votes, comments, dev/mod announcements etc. Everything involving yourself on one big, scrollable, easy to navigate page, in chronological order.
But of course without all the "John likes this", "Jane shared this" spam of social media.
Rather than the current system where one has to dig through some 5+ notifications à la SE, then open them in new windows for readability to see what they were about. And then when you are done checking notifications, you go jumping around manually between the various communities to manually check activity in tags you are interested in. Cumbersome even with a favourite tag system in place.
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