#metabrainz

Hi monkey!

monkey I went through tons of carousels but only found the one implemented currently to be suitable for us.

I have fixed everything else and things seem to be ready with some updates from your side.

mayhem: should we send text/html email or text/plain? it seems that its possible to send both parts in a single email and the email client can decide which version to show. html is preferred if available otherwise it fall backs to plain text.

lucifer: my import is still going strong. now on 2018. so it'll finish some time today

honestly i think something went weird with the bit that made emails mandatory to submit listens (whne was that released?)

1 Nov, 2021.

oh! that might be it actually.

I was logged in and hadn't been logged out since before thne i assume

probably everyone should be force logged out and so they need to log back in

iirc we did that.

i wasn't iirc

did you have an email in MB previously?

ah, i didn't know you coudl reset the timestamp at wil. i'd have asked yo uto reset it to like 20th october instead :D

i've had it for ages

validated in.. idk 2018 or osmething

its possible to reset the timestamp but i have to do it manually in the db. i had set it to 1st oct when i pinged yesterday.

yes

i wishi had logged out and bakc in first. well no matter

i didn't know you coudl do that :D

it's on page 24869 of 32673 now so

might be healty to reimport everything

interesting, i think users who do not have an email may have an issue. i'll try to confirm that but if you have an email then regardless of login/logout it should work.

yes

i think the import still "works" but gives an error in network

so you keep trying withouth actually getting the 401 error with its very descriptive error

*explanation*

it was ind eed tihs errormessage that made me go "but what, i have an email, it's go ot bel inked to that whne logging in!" ok, let's try logging in and tne out

and that seems o have fixed it

yes its possible that some network error is unhandled which then causes the importer to misbehave.

I'll ask if you can all wait with the yim thing until after my import finishes XD

we import new to back iirc? so your 2021 listens shoudl already be in

from scratch seems not to be liek that. it started on like 2008 and is now on 2018

we'll probably need another ~8 hrs at least anyways.

oh, it'll b in by then!

:D

if we want to do full dumps and import those. import latest mb data etc.

🙏 😙

good news lucifer

Let's do both, I'd say.

sounds good. looking at BU send mail, we'll probably need to update it to handle both parts or write a new send_mail in LB

moooin!

I have generated the base data for the playlists shortly after midnight CET, so that should be done. time to make some playlists.

mayhem: what should be the message for timeline event?

"Our family has been farming musical bits for your family for weeks. Come get your copy before Santa comes and steals them all. #confused"

👍, hyperlink copy to year in music page?

yep!

Do we want to keep analytics as to how many people opened our email or had their YIM generated?

"ListenBrainz' very own retrospective on 2021 has just dropped: Check out your own Year in Music now!"

imo no need for analytics.

akshaaatt: we should limit that to checking the logs on who accesses their YIM. other things would be against our privacy policy.

Okieee

I am looking to work on improving the homepage for ListenBrainz after YIM is done so I think such stats would look good their

There*

how many users had their YIM generated is a count of db rows so need of analytics for that.

Yuss

what stats do you have in mind?

How successful YIM was, the basic user stats and listens submitted(which we already have) and maybe adding some sorta stat as to how connected lb is to mb would be good

all except the first sound good. for how successful YIM was i don't think users opening email/page cannot be considered a success anyways?

Yeah right

it would be nice to see how many people open their YIM.

I think we need to prioritise all the features available on ListenBrainz and club them in a section in the homepage

Example pins, recommendations, huesound, yim, listens, etc all should be told to the users that they exist

hi!

I wasn't proposing that we let users upload the content to us -- that is overall not a good idea.

Okay!

something we can think about in more detail next year.

Amazing!

mayhem: first cut, https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-serv... will try sending this to me and see how it renders and then figure out adding the plaintext part.

akshaaatt: monkey: ideas about this? https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-serv...

looks good, lucifer !

i think the first error will go away with a supress. not sure about the second.

I'm not sure about the second error of the import lucifer

We need to finalize things for yim. I'm waiting for monkey to appear :)

i see. its missing type declarations likely so it suggests to add @types/react-coverflow. npm doesn't have that package so will probably need some magic LB side.

That library is also caduing some issues which I want to discuss. But it seems like our best shot at things rn

is it fine if i comment this stuff for some time to try out the email stuff?

Sure lucifer! Go ahead

👍 thanks

!m lucifer

You're doing good work, lucifer!

I'm having some issues with my computer, but I'm around (on my phone at least)

lemme know if you'd like my to bring my old lappy to the office, monkey

monkey: oh no!

That sounded more alarming than was due. Nothing drastic, compy still works

ok

But thanks for the offer

OK, I'm here for the next 2 days! let me read yesterday's chatlog and get up to date on where we are

talk about emails sounds exciting

sure looks like html

i did kinda see that coming, so yeah need to update BU send_email.

no multipart support?

don't think it supports that, but here the content type is also incorrect

ah, I see. it does multipart for attachments, but no html/text email

lucifer: given how short mail.py is, it might be just as easy to import something into LB for now

even go for something like https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Mail/

`The message can contain a body and/or HTML:`

yeah that's the intent, add to LB for now. faster to reiterate. later update as needed.

i see. let me look into that

iterate, not reiterate :)

ah right!

I reiterate, we should iterate more

lol

Heading to OfficeBrainz

alastairp: Flask-Mail looks like hasn't been updated in years and the github repo is missing too. https://pypi.org/project/Flask-Mail/

lucifer: right, not an ideal option then

maybe there's another lib that does html/text mime messages nicely. Doesn't need to be flask related

tbf, I've not even looked at the email library in python, perhaps it's really simple to do

there's an example available here, https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/email.examp...

doesn't look hard

msg.add_alternative(..., subtype='html')

monkey: I'll be there for lunch -- I have a couple of things to take care of around 13:30.

cool. no need for special libraries to make that work

I have lunch with me, so won't be going out, unless for a walk around the block

lucifer: Do you know anything about how to make a custom bit of text turn up in the gmail message preview? when the email is listed in the inbox

alastairp: no don't know. will see if i can find something

not important, I assume it just takes it from the first part, or something

yup looks like it

I often receive full HTML emails, where the preview text isn't anything related to the html

Hola monkey!