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by TheCrazedMadman 2941 days ago
This is by far my favourite new app, I love finding out about new music from all sorts of people, and it's great to just put on when you have some great DJs in the room.

One suggestion I have is to have some sort of "Schedule" (or "Happy Hour") function for the rooms. Because the issue I have is when I log on and check out if there are rooms I like are active, most of the time there wont be any DJs in the room. I'm not usually going to hang out in a room by myself (nor I expect other people to wait around for more people to join). So, if we had a function where admins/mods of rooms can send out a message/email to people who have favourited the room to "come back at 8:00PM EST for Happy Hour". And also have schedule messages for people in the room so they know when to come back and there will be more people.

Could definitely be one of the /bot functions too (I saw one of the EDM rooms doing this but it requires some organization by the admin's part, which most people wont bother with).

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Thanks!

You actually can do that already- I think I just need to make it more obvious. If you're an admin of a room you can 'broadcast' a message to all the people who have saved your room. The message gets sent via email to those users. Keep the feedback coming though if you have more- just shoot me an email.

Yeah, I think making the "Schedule/Happy Hour" more of a thing would help more. Sending a message is good, but it leaves it up to the admins to organize/think of doing it every day. What about on the "all rooms" page above each "Genre" description of a room, there could be a "Happy Hour" time slot that admins can enter and will show up. That way, this will attract people to come back that havent even favourited the room (or will require people to check their email, haha). So they can see immediately "hey, there isnt anyone in this room now, but if I come back from 8-12 EST, there might be some more people here".

Thanks again for creating this program, really hope this stays active for years to come.

Ah I think I see what you mean now- like a suggested activity window for each room. Cool idea, I'll add it to the roadmap. Thanks again :)