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Discussion on: What would you expect from a "vacation mode" feature on DEV?

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Juneau Lim • Edited

IDK... I kept posting weekly but on a vacation during pretty much the whole of July and August.
I couldn't able to read every single one of my follower's post as I used to do, but still liked to receive an alert to quickly check if there is anything interesting (such as this one).

It's true that DEV Community is kinda SNS, but I don't think it's as prompt as Slack or Twitter. Therefore I haven't made notice that I'm on vacation on my account. I'm not sure ~how many of~ if any of my followers are expecting me posting constantly, but even if there is any, I just assumed they will understand my vacant without any notice, since this is that kind of time of year.

It might be a bit more of the case if someone is on vacation any time rather than summer, however, I'm still not sure if "vacation mode" is still needed.
User can put the notice either on user name or bio as people do on Twitter, and can manually turn off the notifications if they want to.
It's true that if there is a such a mode for that, it will make things easier, but I'm not sure it's really the priority feature on DEV.

tl;dr IDK. I believe you folks will make the best choice. According to the situation and (time/human) resource.