Is there actually anyone out there who wants to get emails from a forum forever just because they made a post once asking for help? I truly can’t fathom why on earth anyone would ever be stupid enough to make that be the default, unless it’s for marketing - in which case it’s quite literally spam.

This is still our current stance: [изображение] mcwumbly: There’s an earlier request for a similar feature here: Please don’t autosubscribe me to summary emails It’s something we are open to giving people more control over when they create their account and we’ve discussed some possible design…

It would have been quicker to hit unsubscribe on one email than to come here and complain. :laughing:

I changed the title so it is less clickbait. Defaults for all forums is certainly something we consider. Ultimately, forum admins are in charge. If they decide to prioritize engagement via emails, it is their choice.

[изображение] John Runyon: Is there actually anyone out there who wants to get emails from a forum forever It’s not forever. It’s for suppress digest email after days days (that defaults to 180). Usually when you join a community you care about what’s happening there. And your first message…

To be fair to the OP: not every community is meta (:heart:). If I need help to get some error message resolved on some software product I purchased, that doesn’t make me overflow with warmth for that product community necessarily. There’s lots of use cases of forums centered around technical suppor…

[изображение] chapoi: If I need help to get some error message resolved on some software product I purchased, that doesn’t make me overflow with warmth for that product community necessarily. Then the people who run that community should change the default.

I’m not saying that isn’t a solution, I’m trying to offer some perspective to those in the thread who seem intent on just smashing OPs post, based on emotional kneejerk reactions about giving back to the community.

The question was “why is this the default” and the answer is that it’s been that for 10 years and he’s the first person to complain. It’s the most appropriate default for most communities. I’m have accounts on many many sites I don’t care about, it’s not hard to turn off the summary emails. A reaso…

[изображение] Jay Pfaffman: he’s the first person to complain. There’s an earlier request for a similar feature here: Please don't autosubscribe me to summary emails It’s something we are open to giving people more control over when they create their account and we’ve discussed some possible…

I don’t think digest emails would technically count as transactional (especially if it’s not a digest of activity I’ve taken part in), so we should probably disable them by default on new sites. They should require explicit opt-in.

[изображение] John_Runyon: Is there actually anyone out there who wants to get emails from a forum forever just because they made a post once asking for help? Came here to say the same thing. I’ve signed up to a number of random Discourse communities just to ask a quick question, and now ~10…

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mcwumbly (Dave McClure) 21.Сентябрь.2025 15:42:49 25

Это по-прежнему наша текущая позиция:

Если вы хотите помочь продвинуть эту идею, проголосуйте за эту функцию и примите участие в обсуждении деталей её дизайна по ссылке выше.

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Option to always receive Activity Summaries even when you've been on the forum Feature activity-summary	20	4521	27.06.2024
Please restore email digests Feature	47	7183	20.06.2017
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