Feature request - add ability to modify which notifications are seen

[laboon]

I don't particularly care about certain notifications (e.g. block authoring or gain/loss of nominators) - it would be nice to be able to only display the notifications I am interested in (e.g. payouts, change in commission, etc.)

[kukabi]

Hi @laboon, thanks for the report, you may turn on/off all types notifications through the /settings command. Please give it a shot and let me know any issues.

[kukabi]

Block authoring notifications are under Validator Activity -> Block Authorship, nomination gain/loss are under Nominations, payouts at Validator Activity -> Payout Called.

I think there's no notification for commission change, I'll give it another look and update, I agree it would be a good notification.

[laboon]

Thank you! Looking forward to the addition of commission change notifications!

[kukabi]

Hi @laboon, sorry for noticing this a bit late, but the bot should already be notifying commission changes. The notification is for when the validator submits a new validate extrinsic successfully, and the commission rate is there alongside other information:

I think the only way to change the commission is to submit a new validate extrinsic, so you should already be receiving these notifications when there's a commission change.

The opener text declared a new intention to validate is not very user-friendly for nominators, but for the audience of this bot (node operators) I think it is appropriate. If I added a separate notification for commission change (and I did) it would give two notifications, so I would have to remove the validate extrinsic notification, but I think that the complete extrinsic notification is better suited for the use cases of this bot. A commission change notification would definitely make better sense for a nominator bot/app though, which I'm working on too.

Please let me know what you think, thanks:)

EDIT: Actually one way this notification could be more useful is to post only when there's a change to either commission or the nomination blocking status. So it's more like "preferences update" notification rather than "validate intention". Will take a look.

[laboon]

I didn't notice this as part of the intention to validate myself.

> Actually one way this notification could be more useful is to post only when there's a change to either commission or the nomination blocking status

Yes, exactly! This may be some extra work but for me (as a nominator interested in my validators, so I may not be the target audience exactly), it would be very valuable.