# Bigger intervals/ lower frequency for activity summary?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326 "2019-03-22T11:55:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326/1 "2019-03-22T11:55:39Z")
I would have thought that this came up before, but apparently not: I would appreciate of the there were more frequencies to choose from under “Activity Summary”
As I sign up for more and more discourse forums, I realize that for quite a few of them, I would be happy to receive a summary every 3 months or even every 6 months. It would be a nice way to keep in touch without being “spammed” every two weeks.
Does it require too much CPU power to compile summaries for longer periods, or what is the reason for the two weeks limit? Wouldn’t that extra power be compensated by the lower frequency? Or perhaps those low frequency summaries could be allowed to be somewhat more random in their selection of included posts?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326/2 "2019-03-24T23:54:05Z")
@codinghorror maybe we nuke “3 days” and “2 weeks” and add “1 month” / “6 months” ?
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### Author:  [@Cozdabuch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Cozdabuch)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326/3 "2019-03-25T00:32:35Z")
The 3 days is useful. The 2 weeks IMO is easy to nuke withoutaffecting user workflows
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326/4 "2019-03-25T00:34:51Z")
3 days is super odd, cause it can land on a Sunday or Saturday. Day of week it lands is constantly changing. I kind of like a “Monday and Friday” option, but that is way way out of scope.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326/5 "2019-03-25T02:39:44Z")
Yeah I like your plan best. Nuke those two and replace.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326/9 "2019-03-28T21:46:54Z")
Wow, that was fast!!
> [@Discourse 2.3.0.beta6 Release Notes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-3-0-beta6-release-notes/112839/1):
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> ### Add every month / 6 months options to email digest
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> The frequency with which to send email digests has two new entries. Now you can choose to send the summary emails monthly or even every six months.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326/10 "2019-03-29T00:31:45Z")