Comments workflow (for users)

[DavidIIED]

• [x] Missing link to Login or register to post comment Add these via twig if user not logged in

• [ ] email notification of comments to reviewer

• [ ] Review various modules

• [ ] Add documentation. Need to be clear on responsibilities if we are planning to allow unmoderated comments

https://www.drupal.org/project/comment_notify – send mail to site users, not to site admin/moderator (most suitable?) https://www.drupal.org/project/notify – notifications about new nodes and comments posted on a Drupal web site. https://www.drupal.org/project/rules – heavy solution to send emails https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_activity – configure and generate any kind of notifications https://www.drupal.org/project/eca - ECA is a powerful, versatile, and user-friendly rules engine for Drupal 9+ https://www.drupal.org/project/scn – only send notification e-mails to admins/moderators about new, published comments. https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_notify - new power version for SCN (please use instead) See also message stack

Notifications via e-mail comparison https://groups.drupal.org/node/15928

Important! Review/create all notifications user flows before deciding module. Will also need to have an opt-out function

[DavidIIED]

• [x] enable Simple Comment Notify module (installed #658)
• [ ] configure and test

[DavidIIED]

https://www.drupal.org/node/2180145Message Stack - comprises three main modules: Message, Message Notify, and Message Subscribe.

Appears to offer more appropriate message focused options than 'entity_activity'.

DS to install and test on new sub-branch

[cbrody]

comment_notify seems to do more or less what we want. Opt-out and default subscribe options are available via the user's page (/user/<id>/edit) as well as on individual nodes, though you can only change your settings for a specific comment thread by posting a new comment, as noted elsewhere.

[DavidIIED]

Has this been re-tested? The issues were with usability rather than functionality. When testing on stage previously Nick and I found that:

• Theoretically allows users to subscribe to either ‘all comments’ or ‘replies to my post’. However these options are presented in a non-intuitive way to users - it is not obvious that you NEED to select one of 'all' or 'replies' to subscribe. For example Nick assumed he'd subscribed just by ticking the subscribe box.
• Setting default to ‘all comments’ to avoid this only breaks the comment display!
• You won’t receive notices about other comments unless you add a comment first.
• As noted, you can only unsubscribe to comments by adding another comment and changing your selection.