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Fuzz · 06-03-2019, 06:24 AM

I think there have been some good suggestions on improving it. Count me amoung the "I want a better system", not "I want one that doesn't bother me" people, because like I said, I have yet to be bothered by it.

So, from what has been posted in this thread, they could use varying levels of alert. SO for an Amber Alert and your phone is in DND mode, you get a silent alert delivered, that you can see when you wake up, so the next time you look at your phone, which for most people is every 3 minutes anyway, if they are awake. If it is a Civilization Ending Meteorite, you get an audible alarm no matter what.

Why is that an improvement? Because you lessen the chance of people just ignoring it, or rolling over at the 3am, clicking whatever shuts it up and not looking at it because they have gotten an alber alert every 2 weeks, and it becomes routine to not read it. I think lots of other jurisdictions do it this way? I don't see this reducing the effectiveness of an amber alert in any way.

The other improvement is obviously improving the wording for dismissing the message, and maybe leaving it in the notification bar until you click a dismiss form there, so it stays on your notifications unless you take a specific effort to dismiss it. No one pays much attention at 3 am to how they shut up a noise, they just want it silenced. But it would be nice if the next morning it was easy to review.

There may have been other suggestions as well.

06-03-2019, 06:24 AM	#366
Fuzz Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Pickle Jar Lake Exp:	I think there have been some good suggestions on improving it. Count me amoung the "I want a better system", not "I want one that doesn't bother me" people, because like I said, I have yet to be bothered by it. So, from what has been posted in this thread, they could use varying levels of alert. SO for an Amber Alert and your phone is in DND mode, you get a silent alert delivered, that you can see when you wake up, so the next time you look at your phone, which for most people is every 3 minutes anyway, if they are awake. If it is a Civilization Ending Meteorite, you get an audible alarm no matter what. Why is that an improvement? Because you lessen the chance of people just ignoring it, or rolling over at the 3am, clicking whatever shuts it up and not looking at it because they have gotten an alber alert every 2 weeks, and it becomes routine to not read it. I think lots of other jurisdictions do it this way? I don't see this reducing the effectiveness of an amber alert in any way. The other improvement is obviously improving the wording for dismissing the message, and maybe leaving it in the notification bar until you click a dismiss form there, so it stays on your notifications unless you take a specific effort to dismiss it. No one pays much attention at 3 am to how they shut up a noise, they just want it silenced. But it would be nice if the next morning it was easy to review. There may have been other suggestions as well.