Comments are now emailed out

- posted by Sudara on 20 Nov 22:48 - 7 comments -

Hi!

A heavily requested feature is here: Getting comments on your songs delivered via email.

A lot of folks directly asked for this feature saying that they missed comments, or maybe were absent from alonetone for (gasp) a week or two, or simply wanted to know right away so they could stop compulsively checking their home page.

Note: Comments are by default enabled. This was a rash last minute decision that I'm bound to regret, but the reasoning was this:

We are not facebook emailing you some bull$*#% about being invited to an imaginary party with imaginary friends. It's real people and often your friends talking about your music, and most likely 90% of folks will not be annoyed by having the comments emailed to them.
Many folks who already signed up but don't visit alonetone obsessively would not actually edit their profile, see this blog post, or know that this was possible.
It's super duper easy to turn off, via the profile
It's a good default to have for new folks singing up and uploading their tunes. One less thing they have to worry about, and you know how it is after you upload your tunes to alonetone. You are sitting there waiting for a bit of feedback!

There might be a kink or two with folks who have the habit of making a comment and then deleting it to edit it. If this becomes a problem, we're probably only going to let the person receiving the comment do the deleting. (keep things simple rather than doing something crazy like having editing of comments!)

Have fun and enjoy!