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View submission: Moderation basics (modqueues and more)
So here's an issue that's probably important to think about. When you're on Reddit in a web browser, if you get a new chat, a new private message, a new reply to a post or comment you wrote, or a new modmail, indicators on the screen will light up to tell you. What's missing from that? Something new in the modqueue.
If you're running the official Reddit app on your "smart" device, you can configure notifications for a lot of things, including again new chats, private messages, replies, and so on. But this time, as far as I can tell, no notification for new mod mail, and still no notification for modqueue items.
This is, of course, a terrible oversight on behalf of the Reddit developers. Though also, what about when you *aren't* looking at Reddit in your browser?
After three years of being a moderator, I finally decided to look for answer to this, and it turns out there's a very old but simple and effect one. In the old Reddit preferences menu, there is a list of RSS feeds. ( https://old.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/[1][2] ) There are plenty to chose from, but the key ones here are "your moderator inbox" (available in both "everything" and "unread" varieties, though it seems like the "unread" is good enough to catch new stuff as it comes in, even the ones that are automatically archived or if another moderator archives it right away, which is *great*) and "moderator listings - modqueue".
1: https://old.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/
2: https://old.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/
Then all you have to do is have an RSS reader installed, and there are plenty to choose from as both smart device apps and browser plug-ins. (I'm using Feedbro[3] in my browser for this.) I literally just set this up for myself earlier tonight and it's been amazing so far.
3: https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
Comment by SolariaHues at 24/03/2020 at 14:41 UTC
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Very useful info, thank you. You always provide very thoughtful comments, thanks for doing that.
Automod can be used to modmail for every new post for situation where that might be helpful.
Discord webhook feeds can also do this if you have a server. The mee6 bot does it and I'm sure others. Discord can then notify you on your discord app - desktop or mobile.
It might be worth considering the activity level of your sub though, notifs for every post will get old fast on a very busy sub.
I'll have a look at RSS later, maybe worth doing a guide.