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I took @mentions out. I got the impression that people didn't like the implementation, so I shot it head.
Oh yeah. I know what the problem is. I don't know the solution though.

I have seen many games where players post "TBD" (normally in angle brackets, but I can not post those here:) and roll and then come back and fill in what they did. They even have a name: "TBD posts", and are sufficiently standard that many assume that is how things are done, so I have to explicitly ban them in all my games to counter that assumption.

Really? I thought I was the only person on the site/discord who wasn't head over heels in love with the idea of @ mentions 😆
I feel like having rolls not be part of posts but something you do inbetween posts would be a good solution (or allowing both maybe).

The solution of 'don't play with people you don't trust' is not helpful here so adding mechanisms that protect against this cheating is a good thing.

The only reason I use dice rollers is to simulate the shared experience of everyone looking over to see the outcome on important rolls. I found that aspect lacking on games where I have players use whatever (physical?) dice they have lying around. Rolling on the site added that excitement back.

Might be different in different systems maybe. I've seen those from players but very rarely. Mostly from GMs.
Doesn't matter though. TBD posts are a big hassle, regardless of who they come from, in my opinion

Yea, "never play with new members" is not a good solution I think 😆

I would feel weird if a game didn't have dice rolls in the thread. Just someone writing "I totally rolled a 19 there, btw" would feel strange. Even if I know and trust the user

Whereas I positively encourage TBD style posts from players. I almost can't imagine playing without them. Meh - wouldn't it be awful if we were all the same?

But yeah, knowing when a post is finished so I can react is somewhat of a problem.

Some of us play games across many sites and constantly hitting F5 on all of them is not practical, especially when some of them will only have posts a few times a day, and emails would let us know immediately.

Not everyone has as many updates, most only have a few a day.

It is simple enough to have ones email system sort mails in such a way to make dealing with them easy.

If someone chooses not to use the notification system then the system can not help them and they need to come up with their own system, but that is out of our hands.

If we send emails for edits we should also mark the thread as unread (using the current mechanism) as those are the two mechanisms used here. This might be a v2 issues, though?

I only really find this with DnD games/players. But that does mean it is a common standard.

Marking the whole thread as unread for everyone (except the editor) is trivial from a coding standpoint - but it gives no indication of what happened if it was a major edit on an early post.

Maybe the solution is to mark the whole thread unread (as you suggest), and rely on people saying "Oi! Stop making major edits on early posts! It's confusing!"

Minor edit by default so it's opt in.

Yep. Non-idea. But miles better than no indication that things changed.

We're in agreement.

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And I'm not saying using email notifications is a bad idea for everyone. Just that it'd be very impractical for me. And considering you need to manually subscribe to threads for notifications, I don't think we should consider them a core part of the site but rather an addition. I'd be very annoyed if we implemented a solution that required me to rely on an outside service (email) rather than keep things in one place

My policy is still Don't Edit, and I will just point people at that rule each time they disobey.

Yeah, other places do this better. Some let you set defaults for which threads you automatically subscribe to (ones in your games, ones you reply to, all of a certain type) and you only need to do anything when you want to do something different to your default.

At leas GP lets us subscribe to a forum, so I get email for this thread as soon as it is created, no action required.

Lots to catch up on -- y'all are busy posters. I use TBD style posts all the time, and there are loads of games (beyond D&D) that really encourage roll-then-narrate workflows, or even narrate-roll-narrate more. Love the idea of a little switch that says 'good to go,' but it's easy enough to include an OOC note saying as much. I normally use [post coming], [under construction] or the like, and rarely if ever have a problem with it in my games. Cross-posting is a *much* bigger deal, as it can take me some time to draft up a larger post...

Because you use discord to alert people after your post is finished. The site alone doesn't support TBD posts

Sure it does. Just use an OOC comment. I've operated that way across more than a half-dozen PbP sites for close to 20 years, and I haven't had problems with that on any of them. Discord does make things easier and faster, but I'd argue that there are way more problematic things real-time comms solve beyond "TBD" posts.

Of course you can do this. But my point is that many people don't and it's an annoying issue that I wish there was a fix from the site for 😄

Allow me to clarify...

We deserve rights too 😄