I help run a Discourse forum where we had actively encouraged users to check the box saying “Send me an email for every post” - aka, set mailing_list_mode = True.
With the new mailing list mode, those users all have mailing_list_mode = True, but apparently by default have mailing_list_mode_frequency = 0. As a result, they’re no longer getting the individual emails per post that they expected.
Two issues -
1 - users that previously had mailing_list_mode = True should automatically be opted-in and have the mailing_list_mode_frequency set to the relevant value. (Right?)
2 - what’s the right way to make that change at scale for our users?
I experienced this as well, though in the end only a handful of people had mailing list mode turned on at all and were affected. I was able to write to them directly to sort it out. So it was a fairly easy transition once the settings bug was fixed. Unfortunately one of those people was my CEO who was not especially happy about it.
To find out who had mailing list mode turned on and the frequency, I used this data explorer query and then exported to csv.
SELECT user_id,mailing_list_mode,mailing_list_mode_frequency from user_options
Hmm this only fixes brand new account going forward, there is the huge problem of “history” which is now wrong
To get out of this pickle we are going to have to add a once off migration that sets everything 1 on that table, which means we break any people that changed stuff. @neil released a new image yesterday so, ouch.
