A way to force a user to get email notifications

[pitosalas]

I am trying to get a new site going and as expected people are not visiting the site enough to see whatever activity may be happening.

In order to help the ignition of discussion I was thinking that it would be good if all my initial users receive email notifications of traffic.

Is there a way that I as admin can force that? Is there a way for me to change the default setting for email notification for new users? Thanks!

[watchmanmonitor (Allen Hancock)]

This is how I did it, and I’m sure a more elegant way is on the horizon:

Til then:

Setting defaults to enable mailing list mode-Temporary Solution

Continuing the discussion from Edit a user setting for all Discourse users: So, I did this in my forum - I sent a nice email explaining what’s up, and just did it. Then, I went ahead and set the defaults as I wanted to be checked by default - and have instructions telling people how they can change them if they want (all I did was set defaults, not lock them in place) It’s been great. Discourse is now the mailing list I’ve wanted since day one, with the most functional web-ui out there. He…

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

@pitosalas

In order to help the ignition of discussion I was thinking that it would be good if all my initial users receive email notifications of traffic.

I can’t remember when we made this change, but for a while now we’ve instituted “bootstrap mode” on initial install which forces daily activity digests (versus weekly), and grants all new users trust level 1 immediately, for the first 50 people who join a Discourse site. After the 51st user joins these settings are set back to default for all users.