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Drop the "UpdateMeBot here!" prefix #111

Open chipaca opened 3 years ago

chipaca commented 3 years ago

UpdateMeBot rocks. Thank you for writing it, and hosting it.

I get a reasonably large number of notifications from it, and sometimes I wish it wouldn't start every single one of them with "UpdateMeBot here!". I already know it's from UpdateMeBot, and in places without a lot of space that friendly greeting eats into the available space. In particular in android notifications it eats into it twice:

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would it be reasonable to make this greeting optional? I'd happily work on the change if you agree to it. (alternatively it could be dropped altogether -- again, say the word and I'll give it a weekend).

Watchful1 commented 3 years ago

You can kinda already do this. Turn on abbreviated notifications. That shortens the body of the message, but not the subject. So the second line of that notification would show more, but the first line would still have the "UpdateMeBot Here" bit.

chipaca commented 3 years ago

I'm on the fence about that though, because I kinda like the extra context in the non-abbreviated notification when I've got the space for it :-)