Might be something to consider, adding a notification not only from moves but also for someone sending you a message directly, or even in a game?
Thoughts?
What do you mean? There’s notifications for pretty much everything.
Settings > Enable desktop notifications [v].
In respect of getting a “Message”, the notification seems perfect: the little box with the chat session pops up discreetly at the bottom showing you that you have a pending conversation.
The major major gap is that if someone types a message into a game-chat as the game finishes, or after, you don’t get notified, and have no reason to look at the game again.
It’s a big wish list item of mine that this would get fixed somehow.
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Pretty sure he means email notifications.
It would be amazing to know if someone has sent you a private message or an in game message without having to log in and check every game you’ve ever played to see if it has a new message
You’re right. If we got email notification of pending game chat messages, it would solve the problem I mentioned.
However, this would need careful consideration how to implement, because we don’t want a darn email for every chat message we get…
Not sure how many email notifications you have turned on, but my personal experience has been if you’re actively playing a game, (or I guess currently active on the site) the server won’t email you saying it’s your turn… So I’m inclined to believe a similar check would also be in place for chat messages meaning you’d only be notified of the messages you missed while you were away.
No, please make this a feature and set it as enabled by default. That will teach all those people playing 100 games at once.
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Oh - true true! Bring it on!
Because obviously people that play a lot of go need to be punished somehow.
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Actually, there’s no evidence that people who play 100 games at once play more Go than people who play 5 games at once. What actually happens is that the 100 games at once people play them all painfully slowly…
Time controls are a resource. If you don’t like it, play faster time controls. Don’t paint an entire group with the one judgemental brush.
But this is getting rather off topic I dare say.
That doesn’t seem rational at all, ofc people who play 100 games of go play more than someone who plays 5 games. That is 95 more variations of the game to be exact. It is more exposure to the game.
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I suspect the whole 100 games thing was meant largely in jest 
although if you play 100 games for two months or five new games every three days you can get to the same ammount! That’s what GaJ was saying I think.
But yes please, let’s get back to the original idea. So you people would really want an e-mail for every message you get when not online? O.o And about the missed in-game chats, how about making it a notofication (upper right) or is that silly?
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Yeah, 100 was hyperbole on my part. But I seriously do find that opponents I play who have many games going at once play way slower than those who don’t. So I’m not convinced that it’s a rule that more games at once means more go.
Anyhow, I only ever get an email about a go turn being due if it is about to time out. Not each time it is my turn.
What would be the equivalent for in-game chats?
I’m thinking I only really care about an email for them if they come as the game closes.
But maybe if it is a really slow game, someone would like to know if there is a chat that came during the “thinking” time?
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I don’t know about being emailed Everytime someone messages you, as that might result in a pretty cluttered inbox.
I like the idea of having some kind of notification in the top right of the websites UI
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