[Data-modeling] the commons / non distinction is a farce

[Kirrily Robert]

On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
> Was this a recent change?  This happened a couple of weeks ago
> (pre-email notifications), so I'm talking about notifications on my
> logged in Freebase home page that never showed up, but I'm assuming
> that there's a 1:1 correspondance between email notifications and
> homepage notifications.

There is no such correspondence, sorry.  The newsfeed on the homepage  
and the email notifications are completely different subsystems.

> Oh wait, I see what might be the difference, you wrote "domain's
> *homepage*." (emphasis added)  Does that mean discussions on a
> specific type in the domain don't necessarily get notifications posted
> unless you're subscribed?  If so, I think these should be included,
> because that's where people end up when they click "Suggest a
> property" on the type schema page.  All such suggestions should get
> admin notifications.


Hmm, I thought type discussions were meant to be automatically  
crossposted to the domain they were part of, but this does not seem to  
be the case.

K.

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Kirrily Robert
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