Well this is probably just personal but I feel that #announce ranks near to the top of useless features osu! has. Why? You get lots of information you don't care about, examples:
It'd be good if we could get announces based on subscriptions. For instance, we could subscribe to a map, and therefore get news about it (not "X map has been played 4000 times!", really, I doubt anyone really cares about that), like people getting #1 on certain diffs, the map getting bubbled (if we subscribe to some not ranked beatmap), if the map has been revived from the graveyard, if the map has been ranked, etc.
Same with players, it'd be cool if we could subscribe to players and get stuff like "X player has reached rank X on X.", and stuff.
Ok you got the idea, welcoming suggestions.
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So, list:
- Subscribing to a certain user, wanting to follow his mapping activities or his playing activities (or both). Being able to select an specific game mode (or various). Which implies:
a. Being able to subscribe to a mapper, getting announces whenever any of his maps is submitted, updated, bubbled, ranked or approved.
b. Possibility to subscribe to a certain player, getting a notification whenever this player obtains a new top score. [Incomplete idea, what should be the exact condition for an announce to pop-up? Top 10? Top 40?]
- Ability to subscribe to a specific beatmap, announces relating to updates, bubbles, ranking/approving, new #1@any difficulty, etc. This could be really useful when following a WIP map/pending map.
- Option allowing us to receive a notification whenever any map is ranked/approved. Message could be different if the ranked/approved map comes from some mapper we have already subscribed to, it should differentiate from any other "X map is now ranked!". Also, this would help us avoid duplicate message. (If I subscribe to X, and his map gets ranked, I'd be getting two different messages, one from the subscription and one from the general ranking thing).
- Allowing us to get announcements about a new player getting #1@pp, or entering the top 100@pp on each mod (of course, you could decide if you want to get info from every mod or just from one or two)..
- Toggle allowing us to get feedback about our friends (mutual?) relevant activities (map submission/update/etc, #1 scores?).
It'd be good if we could get announces based on subscriptions. For instance, we could subscribe to a map, and therefore get news about it (not "X map has been played 4000 times!", really, I doubt anyone really cares about that), like people getting #1 on certain diffs, the map getting bubbled (if we subscribe to some not ranked beatmap), if the map has been revived from the graveyard, if the map has been ranked, etc.
Same with players, it'd be cool if we could subscribe to players and get stuff like "X player has reached rank X on X.", and stuff.
Ok you got the idea, welcoming suggestions.
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So, list:
- Subscribing to a certain user, wanting to follow his mapping activities or his playing activities (or both). Being able to select an specific game mode (or various). Which implies:
a. Being able to subscribe to a mapper, getting announces whenever any of his maps is submitted, updated, bubbled, ranked or approved.
b. Possibility to subscribe to a certain player, getting a notification whenever this player obtains a new top score. [Incomplete idea, what should be the exact condition for an announce to pop-up? Top 10? Top 40?]
- Ability to subscribe to a specific beatmap, announces relating to updates, bubbles, ranking/approving, new #1@any difficulty, etc. This could be really useful when following a WIP map/pending map.
- Option allowing us to receive a notification whenever any map is ranked/approved. Message could be different if the ranked/approved map comes from some mapper we have already subscribed to, it should differentiate from any other "X map is now ranked!". Also, this would help us avoid duplicate message. (If I subscribe to X, and his map gets ranked, I'd be getting two different messages, one from the subscription and one from the general ranking thing).
- Allowing us to get announcements about a new player getting #1@pp, or entering the top 100@pp on each mod (of course, you could decide if you want to get info from every mod or just from one or two)..
- Toggle allowing us to get feedback about our friends (mutual?) relevant activities (map submission/update/etc, #1 scores?).
