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How does the "Nearby notifications" feature work?
Can you give me some idea of how the "Nearby notifications" feature works? How close does someone have to be to me for me to get their notifications? Does this mean "notifications from my friends that are nearby," or "notifications from ANYONE that is nearby?"
One thing I'd really like to be able to do (and I'm not sure if the "nearby notifications" feature accomplishes it, or not) is get notifications from different groups of friends based on my location. For example: I live in Seattle. Most of the time, I want to get text notifications of what my Seattle friends are up to. However, I sometimes visit, and also have a lot of friends in, San Francisco. If I am visiting SF (which Brightkite would know, because I would have checked in in SF), I'd like for Brightkite to start sending me text notifications for my SF friends and stop sending me text notifications for my Seattle friends.
Is something like this possible? I would love for it to work automatically based on my location, but another (maybe simpler?) alternative would be to allow me to create friend groups, and let me turn on or off notifications for an entire group with on click or SMS command. So, when I went out of town, I could go like, "deactivate seattle" and "active sanfrancisco," or something.
Just some thoughts. Overall, I'm loving Brightkite. Keep up the great work, guys!
One thing I'd really like to be able to do (and I'm not sure if the "nearby notifications" feature accomplishes it, or not) is get notifications from different groups of friends based on my location. For example: I live in Seattle. Most of the time, I want to get text notifications of what my Seattle friends are up to. However, I sometimes visit, and also have a lot of friends in, San Francisco. If I am visiting SF (which Brightkite would know, because I would have checked in in SF), I'd like for Brightkite to start sending me text notifications for my SF friends and stop sending me text notifications for my Seattle friends.
Is something like this possible? I would love for it to work automatically based on my location, but another (maybe simpler?) alternative would be to allow me to create friend groups, and let me turn on or off notifications for an entire group with on click or SMS command. So, when I went out of town, I could go like, "deactivate seattle" and "active sanfrancisco," or something.
Just some thoughts. Overall, I'm loving Brightkite. Keep up the great work, guys!
I’m wishing it had more!
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Jeff, we've implemented more granular controls over nearby notifications. Check out the notifications tab under 'Account Settings', and look for the NN command in the SMS reference.
Hopefully this will give you the level of control that you were looking for.
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Inappropriate?The nearby notifications are for things happening right at that place (within 20 meters). That includes everything that's happening nearby, friends or not.
However, we are working on a way that lets you configure your nearby "listening radius" on the fly, either via the web or mobile. You'll also be able to specify whether you want friends only, or everything.
I think this feature would solve your use cases.
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Inappropriate?Jeff, we've implemented more granular controls over nearby notifications. Check out the notifications tab under 'Account Settings', and look for the NN command in the SMS reference.
Hopefully this will give you the level of control that you were looking for.
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Inappropriate?Hey Martin-
Just getting around to checking this out. What you've implemented here totally does exactly what I was looking for -- it's awesome.
Except for just one little thing (you knew that was coming, didn't you?). :)
I'd like to actually go wider than the "Area" setting (4000 meters). I kind of want city-wide notifications for my Friends, and 4000 meters doesn't cover that in most big cities. Any chance we can get a bit more control over the radius?
Keep up the great work. You guys are doing great things, and it's been fun to watch you implement so many user suggestions and new features over the past couple weeks. -
Inappropriate?jcroft, thanks for the continued support, we really appreciate it. We're working on a way to let you use a higher radius.
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