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Make desktop notifications more discoverable
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Desktop notifications are great but I suspect that not many people use them because they are not easily discoverable. I only found out about them because a colleague told me about them.

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Did you have something specific in mind? It feels about right to me. "New" settings are always going to be somewhat under-discovered.

Woah, same thing for me. Had no idea.

I think I saw a task about having a new user workflow, but can't find it. I think that would be good for introducing new settings as well. Somewhat similar to the admin setup issues.

The slack way of doing think can be a possibility, no ?

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I don't think desktop notifications in it's current state is worth additional touting (it doesn't do Conpherence, for example). Even if it were, I'd rather over-engineer a more generalized "new in phabricator" type feature, so people understand what new functionality was added since their last update.

Safari's Push Notifications for Websites, for example, sounds pretty awesome.

In T8878#126901, @chad wrote:

I'd rather over-engineer a more generalized "new in phabricator" type feature, so people understand what new functionality was added since their last update.

Yes, I think that this would be ideal and would solve my problem.

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It's discoverable in settings just fine.