Request - Notification settings on schedule

[AngryAnt]

The current all-or-nothing nature of per-channel notification settings has the unfortunate effect of trending towards complete silence. This strikes a blow against the utility of Keybase in a business environment - leading to unnecessarily prolonged response times during office hours because people would rather not get notifications from work channels during their off- hours/days.

Essentially what I am requesting to solve this is an implementation of something akin to the timed do not disturb mode of apple platforms - tweaked for the work & private combined nature of Keybase accounts.

My suggestion for implementation would be a tag system - probably exposed in UI/API as "notification groups" or something like that. For such a named group you should be able to define:

• The behaviour on mobile vs. desktop.
• The "mute all notifications" toggle.
• A schedule for silence.
  • All days from 2000 - 0600.
  • Friday - Monday from 1500 - 0600.
  • Whatever similar combo.

Generally:

• All of this is of-course defined per-user.
• Out of the box a single "Default" notification group would be defined as never silent - configurable like any custom group.
• Each channel has a notification group associated.
• Each new channel is associated with "Default" or a per-team associated override.
• On a per-group basis it should be possible to mute/unmute for a period of time (probably just reusing the steps from exploding chat messages). The target experience here being similar to the "silence for an hour / until tomorrow" functions of the fruit company DND features.

Example groups I would personally define:

• Default (silent by default).
• Private (silent in office hours).
• Private critical (never silent).
• Work (silent out of office).
• Work critical (never silent).

But that's me and the core idea is that this should be more customizable per-user. Keybase is merging a lot of tools and contexts together - it should embrace something like this in order to properly fit in the spot it is making for itself.

[LeslieFH]

Without customizable notifications Keybase is pretty useless as Slack replacement, because 90% of people will choose usability over security, and the remaining 10% is not a sufficiently large userbase to make team chat workable.