[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] "New Community Messages" Dialog for unresponsive mappers (Issue #4080)

[cmoffroad]

> Our "community" has over 10 million users and that thread has, if I'm reading right, a single reply that appears to support the idea so I think saying the community reacted positively may be overstating things a little.

I was referring to the dozen regulars at https://community.openstreetmap.org/ who actively engage in discussions on various global topics, but let's move on from that point ;)

> Given you appear to be proposing a modal (something that will be very controversial) for the whole web site I'm not really sure what iD has to do with this.

I understand your point about moving the issue to iD, but please note that when I raised the same concern regarding the "Report User" topic, I was informed that it is specific to the "openstreetmap-website" codebase. Therefore, I assumed that any code related to changeset comments or unread messages would also need to be addressed at the website level. Correct me if I'm mistaken.

> I think the primary concern about a modal dialog like this is that you're looking at it from the point of view of a new user who occasionally gets one or two messages - if we consider it from the point of a very active mapper who probably always has new messages arriving then the result would be this modal popping up and having to be dismissed every time they visit the site which I'm guessing might not be very popular.

I totally agree with your point, and it would be great to hear more ideas from the community. We can explore different UX solutions, like adding options such as "Dismiss for 24 hours" or "Dismiss for 1 week" to provide more flexibility. 

Another option could be including a user profile setting to hide the dialogs by default. This way, new users would still see the dialog, but experienced users can choose their preferred setup. 

Let's keep the discussion going and see what other suggestions we can come up with!

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