Can a Weekly Digest be sent out on a specific day to all members?

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Weekly Digest on a Specific Day:
The original poster, drbarnard, wants to send a weekly digest to all members every Monday night, including specific content like upcoming AMAs and top posts from the last week.

Falco suggested creating a protected category for the digest, making it a default category for watching first posts, and posting customized content every Monday.

However, as noted by drbarnard and clarified by Falco, the category cannot be completely hidden from users, as they need “see” access to receive the emails. Instead, topics can be unlisted to prevent them from appearing publicly.

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I’ve been a member of a Discourse community for a couple years now and am setting up a community for my employer. I’m lining up weekly AMAs and want all members to get a weekly digest every Monday night to see who is doing the AMA and the first few questions that have been asked (as well as the regular digest of the top posts from the last week). Is it possible to send the weekly digest on a schedule (and include specific content) instead of relying on inactivity as a trigger for the email to be sent?

(I’ve spent the last 30 minutes looking through settings and searching this forum and haven’t found anything, but maybe I missed something?)

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It is a little bit of work but you can do it using:

  1. Create a category to host those monday digests, let’s say “AMA Teasers”.

  2. Make this category protected, so people can’t create topics or reply on it. Only you (staff)

  3. Put this category in the “default categories watching first post” site setting.

  4. Every monday create a topic in there with the customized content and a link to the actual AMA topic.

3

Could I make it a staff category where people can’t even see it? Or would it have to be a public category for them to get the emails?

4

People need the “see” access to get the emails.

What you can do is to Unlist those topics as soon as you create, so they won’t appear anywhere.