Birthday Notifications

[dancing_serpent]

Is there a way to opt out of the birthday notifications? I don't mean not having them sent to me, but keeping DW from notifying people about my birthday.

Comments

[foxfirefey]

You can set your birthday to private; that will prevent any notifications from being sent out, but if anyone has the permission to see your birthday in that slot, they'll get a notification about it (if they have birthday notifications set up).

[dancing_serpent]

Thanks for the reply. There's no other way to get out of this? Because I have it set to display only the year and only to registered users and I'd like to keep it like that, as some mods/maintainers still want to be able to see that kind of information.

[foxfirefey]

If it's only the year, I don't think that notification goes out--it's your birthday that needs to be accessible to a person if they are going to get the notification about it, I'd imagine. If that is not the current behavior, then it needs to be changed.

[dancing_serpent]

All right, that's good to know. I don't know if that's the current behaviour, but it sounds good to me.

[foxfirefey]

For your peace of mind, I went and dug up the code behind this:

sub should_fire_birthday_notif {
    my $u = shift;

    return 0 unless $u->is_person;
    return 0 unless $u->is_visible;

    # if the month/day can't be shown
    return 0 if $u->opt_showbday =~ /^[YN]$/;

    # if the birthday isn't shown to anyone
    return 0 if $u->opt_sharebday eq "N";

    # note: this isn't intended to capture all cases where birthday
    # info is restricted. we want to pare out as much as possible;
    # individual "can user X see this birthday" is handled in
    # LJ::Event::Birthday->matches_filter

    return 1;
}

You can see that if the month and day isn't shown, the function returns "0" which is like answering "no, don't show it". So, yes, I think you are good.

[dancing_serpent]

*g* Thanks again.