More finely grained Email Preferences recommendations in email

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

A client just said that they. . .

noticed that at the bottom of the email summaries I only get a button to unsubscribe from emails that gives me two options:

What if someone just wants to receive emails less frequently? Can we add this option to list above?

The only other alternative I’ve seen for users to change the frequency of how many emails they get is buried deep inside their user preferences. It is hard to find and has very confusing options and settings.

Any suggestions on how to simplify this?

I don’t have an answer other than to include a link to the preferences page (and I just tracked down again that a link to Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse will do the Right Thing) and a note to search for “activity summary” on the page.

Does anyone have a better idea?

Or maybe this should be in feature. The feature request would be to include a link directly to the activity summary. Another might be to include usable id= tags on the use page so that you could link directly to the right spot on the page. (All I see is id=ember1234 tags, which don’t work across sites–are they stable on a single site?)

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

@pfaffman

Or maybe this should be in feature. The feature request would be to include a link directly to the activity summary. Another might be to include usable id= tags on the use page so that you could link directly to the right spot on the page. (All I see is id=ember1234 tags, which don’t work across sites–are they stable on a single site?)

The upcoming user preferences UX change may assist here:

@codinghorror

Rebuild user prefs page to use subtabs

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Not a bad idea to offer a “send me monthly summary instead of weekly” option here @sam, your call.

[tschoepp]

And bi-weekly summaries please

[zogstrip (Régis Hanol)]

This has now been done

Easy deferring of digest frequency from unsubscribe page

Continuing the discussion from Improved unsubscribe workflow: @nbianca recently added a couple of very slow digest options (monthly and half yearly) I think it makes sense to add a special block to “unsubscribe” from digest page to allow users to quickly “tone down” the digest frequency. If people can push back something that is weekly to half yearly it may avoid the need to totally opt out of digests. Unsubscribe You are currently receiving digests weekly. Change digest frequency: [weekly|…