Improved unsubscribe workflow

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

I am just rolling out an improved unsubscribe workflow per:

Improving our unsubscribe functionality

Over the last week I have been thinking a lot about our “mail problem” The problem is that on certain very active instances of Discourse tons of mails can be generated, which inevitably leads some people to click the “spam” button, and hurt deliverability of all mails from that site. It is easy to blame this on specific features: We allow people to easily enable mailing list mode which can lead to email floods on mega active sites Watching a very active category is death by a thousand pa…

This is included in:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/852860de6688668d6abe566cb1f4953fd13e2f35

##You can now unsubscribe from anything even if you are logged out!

• All unsubscription now happens via a centralized unsubscribe page

• This page always works, even if you are logged out. yes @riking I still force you to log out if you are logged in to the wrong account, by design

• The new page allows you to easily unwatch or mute a topic

• The new page allows you to easily unwatch a category and the huge amount of topics you may be watching in the category

###Some examples:

If you have mailing list mode enabled, unsubscribe will take you to:

If you are watching a topic you will get:

If you are watching a category you will get:

This change significantly decreases the friction for opting out, the option “Don’t send me any mail from sitename” is always there.