Am 28.12.2016 um 03:51 schrieb Jay Sulzberger:
Perhaps one could send a signal to hackagebot telling it to not send announcements,
If one person requests a list, then others might be annoyed because of the noise; moving from push to pull is not a solution for noise. If announcements are to be curated, a bot could be made to post something only on request. Maybe one could integrate a one-line text input field on the upload page on Hackage: In-chat announcement (why is this upload noteworthy?): [______]
or perhaps to queue 'em up and then send a batch when requested.
Or maybe have the bot just send a pointer to today's web page with all of today's announcements, neatly laid out.
The value of chat is that it is instant. For other delivery modes, other media are easier to use: - A mailing list for batched updates. - A web page for people who prefer to pull info when they want it.