Feature request: Include globally pinned topics in the Activity Summary

[Southpaw]

Continuing the discussion from Discourse Activity Summary Emails Guide:

Our Community Activity Summary could be improved by including globally pinned topics.

My request: If a topic is pinned globally, that topic is included in the next Activity Summary sent to anyone who hasn’t visited the Community since the topic was created.

Why? Sometimes there is content we need users to be aware of, and this would give us a way to invite them back into the Community to comment on it. By allowing only the content that’s currently very popular to be featured, we ensure that only people interested in those same things will care enough to return to Community. This creates a downward spiral where Community becomes less diverse and activity revolves around the interests of a select handful of active participants.

I’m not the first to make this suggestion, but I’ll be that guy and re-request it.

@debryc

Is there a way to ensure certain topics are definitely included in the summary email?

For example, I imagine that anything I pin globally, I’d like everyone to see!

@downey

Do globally pinned topics get “pinned” also to the top of Digest emails that go out?

If no, why not? Since they are stuck to the top of topic lists, it seems that they should also be highlighted to make sure they’re seen by digest readers to get their attention, no?

@riking

I do quite like the idea of a pin meaning that it definitely goes out in that week/period’s digest (and no other), and it doesn’t require the pin expiry.

[TheBestPessimist]

Pinned topics should be re-added to future Activity Summaries if they are unpinned, then pinned back.

Usecase: there’s a (global) pinned post “Status of bla”, which keeps getting updated as time goes on (eg. every month). if i unpin, edit, then pin it back, imo it should be again included in the summary mail.