That’s a total letdown. I’ve been citing mailchimp for years fighting against the concept of a single opt-in. Especially surprised that they shared very little data to support the change.
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Forum notifications are not the kind of “unsolicited commercial email” generally restricted by law as “spam.”
Key words in bold.
If you sign up for a forum expect to get email from the host and as mentioned that feature should be disclosed in the signup/terms and there should be opt-out preferences.
Totally different than, I have this random email addrress so I am going to send a commercial email.
Email service providers may have broader policies than the law. Also the laws differ by location so how and if you are required to get the consent may differ.
Also “generally” meaning that sending an email about the forum might be ok; third party offers maybe not ok unless those types of emails are disclosed.
I am suggesting get the consent via the signup/terms. Otherwise, even the email digest could be suspect–another reason to add the privacy/term link to the invite page.
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Hi All,
With the impending GDPR date soon aproaching. What’s the consensus on sending an email to all of our users notifying them of new privacy policy and information on data control.
All of the various services I belong to this past week have been coming out of the woodwork.
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This feature is so useful, I do not understand why the developers are not willing to implement it.
Specially with GDPR it would be great to be able to use discourse as a mailing list and have all users in a single place.
Why are you not implementing this? other people mentioned that this a basic functionality in other forum software
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Would this work for you?
- Set up an Announcements category that every person who registers watches first post by default (can be set in admin settings)
- Allow only staff to post in the Announcements category to protect users from spam (can be set in category settings)
Now when you post in Announcements, everyone gets the notification, including people who haven’t signed in because with them watching first post, they’ll get emailed with the full text of the post.
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That is exactly what we do. I was puzzled once because I needed to pin a new banner but wanted to make sure that people had access to previous banners and announcements. After all, announcements usually carry information that is useful but once read, if it remains in the landscape, people won’t see it anymore. So I made optin to receive the first post the default for that category, and each new announcement is a new topic. It keeps history, users can all read but only admins can post. Each announcement gets also pinned until it is replaced by a new one. People can of course opt-out from watching announcement but from what I observe, it is one of the most watched channels.
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Yo también. Esa es una frase muy buena. Yo también llegué a este hilo buscando esa opción.
Pero este es un punto. Y un punto muy bien dicho. Gracias @awesomerobot
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No estoy muy seguro de entender qué estás haciendo aquí en cuanto a fijar temas. ¿Podrías explicarlo mejor? Si todos reciben una notificación del último tema de anuncios, me pregunto… ¿para qué necesitas un tema fijado?
Creo que la mayor parte de la intención detrás de esta solicitud de funcionalidad podría lograrse combinando la recomendación de fijar/publicaciones nuevas mencionada anteriormente con resúmenes programados.
Gran parte del interés aquí es para un caso de uso de boletín informativo. Un tema de boletín informativo combinado con una publicación fijada para usuarios visitantes/activos y un resumen programado (para usuarios inactivos/pasivos), creo que cubriría gran parte de la demanda.
Sin embargo, actualmente no estoy seguro de si es posible programar un resumen de esta manera:
-TorqueWrench
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Pin de banner. Para quienes decidan no ver las nuevas publicaciones. Y porque es donde solicitamos patrocinios trimestralmente.
Cuando publiqué esto originalmente, la opción “ver primero” era mi estrategia preferida, pero había un error con esa funcionalidad en nuestro sitio: las cuentas nuevas no se activaban cuando la función estaba habilitada. Nunca volví a verificar más tarde si el equipo había encontrado una solución para esto.
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Gracias. Ahora he implementado esto como prueba (sin fijar, pero con el primer mensaje como seguimiento predeterminado) y solo voy a ver cómo lo recibe la comunidad… Quiero alejarme de los boletines por correo electrónico porque Mailch***, etc., son un dolor de m*** 
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