I agree that this issue never made a ton of sense as described in terms of removing presence, but some interesting features we could consider:
Bulk DO NOT NOTIFY settings one could occasionally toggle for all emails we send.
Auto-responders for /connect. I think this would be pretty nice period. Not necessarily just for vacations but if someone could set up conditional auto-responders intuitively it could be a pretty nice, liberating feature.
Yeah, those two points are all I would want to see out of a vacation toggle.
It's not on DEV to stop you from reacting/commenting if you're on vacation, nor should content be removed from the site because you aren't actively planning on responding to it. It sounds like the intent was a mix of an account deactivation with a reactivation option and an actual "out of office" set up. I'd be more interested in "out of office" settings.
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I agree that this issue never made a ton of sense as described in terms of removing presence, but some interesting features we could consider:
Yeah, those two points are all I would want to see out of a vacation toggle.
It's not on DEV to stop you from reacting/commenting if you're on vacation, nor should content be removed from the site because you aren't actively planning on responding to it. It sounds like the intent was a mix of an account deactivation with a reactivation option and an actual "out of office" set up. I'd be more interested in "out of office" settings.