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Email notification
How about getting notified by email, when somebody is editing something? E.g. similar how doodle/nuudel/Github is doing it.
Hey @nieebel,
Yeah this could be an idea, but we would need to have access to an SMTP server to send those mails on each instance. That's no dealbreaker, but something one needs to keep in mind.
The question for me is about what exactly should HedgeDoc inform? Notes you own that got edited? All notes in your history that got edited?
We'd also need to think about notification settings for each user.
I could think of max 1 email per day triggered by any change, saying something like: "https://link-to-hedgedoc-file.org got recently updated - take a look and see what happened" And then you click on history and see what happened.
I think this would be useful, if you have multiple hedgedoc files and some of them are not getting updated on regular basis.
Email would be generally useful, for instance for sending password reset messages.
Hackpad had a lovely email notification system, which also included diffs. These would be sent a certain time after all users had left a certain pad. Such delivery of update notifications could be made dependent on how long ago the last personal visit to a pad in question was, similar how Discourse does it.
There is now an event system incoming #2675, which could be hooked into.
The question for me is about what exactly should HedgeDoc inform? Notes you own that got edited? All notes in your history that got edited?
Notes that one subscribes to for notifications via the menu (people may want to be notified even if they are not editing themselves).
