I am in the process of setting up a new forum and already people have said they don’t like the digest emails. Now rather than turn them off I would like to change the frequency to 1 month or perhaps even 3 months. Trouble is the setting maxes out at 2 weeks, is there a way of making this longer? T…

This can be a thing because the first 50 members of the forum (during the bootstrap mode) get daily digests, and after that it goes back to the default (weekly).

I have set it to 2 weeks, does this mean that the setting is ignored for the first 50 registrations? But that isn’t so much the question but rather is there a way of setting the time longer than 2 weeks? The kind of forum I am starting is quite specialized low volume and users will certainly find e…

No we don’t have an option for more than that. Also, the users who have already signed up will need to change it in their settings or unsubscribe. The digest emails have unsubscribe links and instructions in them.

What is the thinking behind the 2 week limit rather than just having a box to enter number of days?

What I am trying to say is why limited set of options? Seems odd that I can only choose 1 hour or daily, what if I wanted 8 or 12 hours? In my particular case I would like 1 month. Would it not be better to have a number box and Days/Hours/Minutes drop down. So In this example I can put 8 in the …

No such option is planned for the forseeable future. We also won’t be adding a milliseconds box.. :wink:

Shame looks like I am stuck with disabling it completely so as not to annoy everybody :frowning: The particular trouble is the way Discourse is packed as a Docker container it makes it much harder to modify it myself. With things like WordPress or Magento overriding the code in a way that survives …

I wouldn’t know how to code it, but I think there’s a good chance you could use a plugin so changes would survive updates. It is easy enough to override the site setting config/site_settings.yml main default: false client: true area: …

It’ll be annoying only those people who don’t visit your forum.

Default email digest frequency?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) July 20, 2017, 11:27pm 6

Why number of days? Why not number of minutes?

I think that should answer your question

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