I would like it so users would have a checkbox in preferences screen to "Received own posts too by e-mail". So if it was checked, when I post some message, I would also receive a copy of my own message by e-mail.
Currently, when I watch some thread, I only receive e-mails for what everybody else was saying, but my own posts are skipped, so by looking at archived e-mail conversation it is losing significant amount of context.
Note that e-mail is being used as much more than just "transient ephemeral instant notification that something happened" (where it would indeed be useless to notify you that you have just posted), but for much more like:
- full archiving of interesting threads (e.g. safeguarding for cases if instance disappears)
- selective archiving (e.g. you can remove 95% of uninteresting posts in a thread from your archive after you receive them by e-mail and keep only ones important to you)
- offline use
- local AI training (and other data retrieval / analyzing techniques)
- etc.
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