# First link in post footer - very distracting

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-link-in-post-footer-very-distracting/37726>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [2016 年 1 月 11 日午前 8:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-link-in-post-footer-very-distracting/37726 "2016-01-11T08:07:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2016 年 1 月 11 日午前 8:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-link-in-post-footer-very-distracting/37726/4 "2016-01-11T08:27:22Z")

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Its the same age old problem.

I am fine with this blue styling for the first 2 emails I ever get from any Discourse instance in the world. After that the styling suggested by @DeanMarkTaylor is significantly less annoying to me. And I can find the link every time when I look at it.

So the question is… who are we optimising for.

- The person who get the first response ever from Discourse
- General users of Discourse that got more than 5 emails.

The correct thing to do here is an A/B test, that is what really was recommended by the UX ninjas.

- Add a tracking link like ?open\_from\_email to the end of the “visit the topic”
- 50% of emails go out in grey styling
- 50% go out with the blue styling
- See if there is a significant change in “visiting topic from email” on either.

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