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When somebody subscribes on something there is this message that is a bit too much verbose. This can be an issue for some cases, like: - people that have attention disorders - people that have the bad habit to read everything and could read less unuseful text The risk is that, if messages are too much verbose, people risk to do not read them, and important changes risk to be ignored by too much entrophy. Maybe we could just: ```lang=diff -Person added a subscriber: Person. +Person subscribed ``` That avoids a duplicate link. Note: the link is in bold, and it's very visible, so this should also reduce a bit the visual impact of this stuff. Also, requiring less lines on mobile.

When somebody subscribes on something, this message is probably a little bit too verbose: > **Person** added a subscriber: **Person** Similar action: > **Person** removed a subscriber: **Person** This is not optimal because: 1. no human in the world talks like that (at least no human proficient with social habits) - Phorge is clearly our unique friend here, and so it should not try to highlight that it's an artificial friendship. 2. pompous phrases does not help in professional focus - imagine a world where you can switch off 0.01% of your brain to read a sentence, and preserve that energy to focus on software development. //Wow//! 3. wall of texts tends to be skipped, but skipping info should not be encouraged - try to subscribe 69 times. Now destroy a random production server with `rm --recursive --force /` and unsubscribe again 420 times. I bet that your wall of text would be so intense that any related nuclear damage will be not noticed. Eheh! == Proposed solution == Proposed text difference: ```lang=diff -Person added a subscriber: Person. +Person subscribed ``` ```lang=diff -Person removed a subscriber: Person. +Person unsubscribed ``` Proposed visual difference: | Before | After | | {F286215} | {F286216} | Note that the involved person is always a link, and that the link is always in bold, and very prominent. So this also reduces a bit the visual impact of unuseful stuff and requires less lines on mobile. It also requires less markup, so less page loading, by at least a billionth of a second. Also, it saves server CPU cycles, and also it saves network packets. Doing math, after this change, I wouldn't be surprised if all Phorge instances could save a single dolphin every 6 years.

When somebody subscribes on something there is, this message that is a bit too muchis probably a little bit too verbose.: This can be an issue for some cases, like:> **Person** added a subscriber: **Person** - people that have attention disorderSimilar action: > **Person** removed a subscriber: **Person** This is not optimal because: 1. no human in the world talks like that (at least no human proficient with social habits) - Phorge is clearly our unique friend here, and so it should not try to highlight that it's an artificial friendship. 2. pompous phrases does not help in professional focus - people that have the bad habit to read everything and could read less unuseful text - imagine a world where you can switch off 0.01% of your brain to read a sentence, and preserve that energy to focus on software development. //Wow//! 3. wall of texts tends to be skipped, but skipping info should not be encouraged - try to subscribe 69 times. Now destroy a random production server with `rm --recursive --force /` and unsubscribe again 420 times. I bet that your wall of text would be so intense that any related nuclear damage will be not noticed. Eheh! The risk is that, if messages are too much verbose, people risk to do not read them, and important changes risk to be ignored by too much entrophy.== Proposed solution == Maybe we could just:Proposed text difference: ```lang=diff -Person added a subscriber: Person. +Person subscribed ``` That avoids a duplicate link.```lang=diff -Person removed a subscriber: Person. +Person unsubscribed ``` Proposed visual difference: | Before | After | | {F286215} | {F286216} | Note that the involved person is always a link, and that the link is always in bold, Note: the link is in boldand very prominent. So this also reduces a bit the visual impact of unuseful stuff and requires less lines on mobile. It also requires less markup, and it's very visibleso less page loading, so this should also reduceby at least a bit the visual impactillionth of this stuffa second. Also, it saves server CPU cycles, and also it saves network packets. Doing math, after this change, requiring less lines on mobileI wouldn't be surprised if all Phorge instances could save a single dolphin every 6 years.