I’d like to see an option in the preferences to “always send digests” at the desired frequency no matter what, even if the user has been on the forum recently. I’ve been seeing what is sent to others from my discourse on mandrill and am feeling jealous! Even if I’ve been visiting it does not mean I am up to date on all the discussions, and I am sometimes sloppy about wrapping up loose ends, so I’d like to get the newsletter anyway.
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What happened to this option? I was just asked about precisely this issue by someone in my community and now see that the settings available changed at some point.
We are in the process of trying to identify the “ideal settings” for email notifications for our community which we migrated to discourse from google groups. We are trying to encourage people to participate online but because we are a global network with people in “internet-remote” places, email remains key, and digests seem to be the only way to ensure people are informed of all the latest activity.
Here’s the request I got which is pretty concise. Any advice much appreciated.
@tobiaseigen what if I want to get emails of every new post, but only in certain categories? I can’t seem to find how to do that. The only way I see is to receive email for every new post, and mute the categories I don’t want every email for. But then, those muted categories don’t show up in the new or unread columns when I log into the website.
I’d ideally like my workflow to be as follows:
- get emails for everything that goes out to all staff and to leadership categories.
- for all other categories, I want to go to the website and check my “unread” and “new” tabs.
Finally, I tried to sign up for email digests but have been disappointed that I’m not getting any, presumably because I visit the forum. I still want the digests for my records, so I at least know there is one place where I can look back for stuff I know I’ve seen. Just because I drop by the site does not mean I’m reading everything thoroughly, and getting a digest gives me a second chance to catch up. (For this reason, I prefer not to suppress emails while on the site – although I know marena loves and uses that feature!) I vote for receiving digests regardless of appearances on the forum. But I also acknowledge that it may be a quirky personal preference, so we should go with what works for most people.
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The option is still there for notifications, but the digest in particular won’t mail you unless you have been inactive.
Thanks, @codinghorror - appreciate the explanation. Is there a way to bring this back? Perhaps with an admin selectable option for those sites that still want to offer the option to get digests even when you’ve been active?
Bring what back? It never existed.
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I did some research on this last week and forgot to reply. It appears that yes, you are right, that it was never possible to get digests even when active on the site. With best of intentions, @BhaelOchon sent me on a wild goose chase. 
What would it take to add a feature to allow digest delivery for active users? My globally dispersed, email centric community is feeling the weight of information overload. People are tuning out discourse and are ignoring the important notifications about topics they are mentioned in or involved in. When they do log in they ignore the notifications bubble and feel lost. This despite repeated reminders directly and through documentation on the forum.
Providing an email digest of latest activity would go a long way to coaxing these people into our new, discourse way of doing things. As my colleague wrote, she needs a reminder email and a “second chance” to catch up on discussions:
Finally, I tried to sign up for email digests but have been disappointed that I’m not getting any, presumably because I visit the forum. I still want the digests for my records, so I at least know there is one place where I can look back for stuff I know I’ve seen. Just because I drop by the site does not mean I’m reading everything thoroughly, and getting a digest gives me a second chance to catch up.
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@codinghorror Is there a way to get this feature. Essentially we want to disable per topic notification and enable an uniform weekly digest for all community members even when they are active in the forum. This has been requested many times.
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@codinghorror has made it pretty clear he’s not interested in sending digests to people who log in, and it never worked that way.
So I suspect this is plugin territory.
The workaround is for admins to send out weekly digests to everyone manually - the digest preview is pretty amazing for making this quick and easy to do. Adding a group/username filter to the preview to see what real world users actually would see if they got the digest would make this incredible feature even more useful!
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Can you elaborate on this please?
just go to the digest preview on the admin, select range, copy-paste into mailchimp, tweak, send.
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Thanks, I was afraid that was the answer.
it sounds like this must be obvious but i’m afraid I can’t find this. any more clues?
EDIT - Ahhh. Cleverly hiding in plain sight! 
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Hello everyone, I know it’s an old topic, but I reallly would love to have this feature for my community. Is there a plugin or setting to always sending digest even when the user have been ont th forum?
Doing it manuelly wont be as acurete as the automatic digest, because it wont send the actual notifications or not read topics for everyone.
Or I fund a solution, every saturday morning, setting it to sending digest every 30 min, but doesn’t seems to work.
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You’d need a plugin that overrides the time of last visit (or something like that, I’d have to look at the code).
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我也想念这个功能。我认为这是基于一个错误的假设：访问论坛一次的用户已经知道过去 7 天论坛上发生了什么，这就是为什么他们不需要每周摘要。
另一方面，自动和个性化的组成非常好（而且不需要人工智能资源），以至于偶尔和普通用户没有收到它真是可惜。除非你是关注几乎所有内容的 5% 用户之一，否则每周摘要对你来说仍然是相关的。如果你认为它不相关，你可以根据自己的喜好调整你的偏好。
作为管理员，我确信我的用户会更清楚我们论坛上正在发生的事情，并且会查看更多他们喜欢和回复的新鲜有趣的内容，这反过来又会在我们的主页上产生更好的精选内容，而主页默认使用“热门”排序。想想看，“热门”主页 + 每周摘要是绝配。
作为用户，真实故事：我曾经在一个论坛上非常活跃，但时间有限，所以我决定放弃它。现在我发现自己不再仅仅是为了随意查看而访问论坛，而是为了获取摘要，并将我的浏览和参与集中在一周一次的会话中。我知道这很疯狂，但摘要有时间来精选酷炫和新的内容，而我没有。
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此功能请求已有 10 年历史，我想知道它尚未实现的原因仅仅是优先级低，还是有其他我们在此讨论中忽略的技术因素阻碍了它的实现。
如果没有障碍…… Discourse 团队是否计划实现此功能？如果不是，你们是否对拉取请求感兴趣？
根据你们的回答，我可能会找到一位开发者并筹集资金来实现它，如果它不是很昂贵的话。
哇，我差不多就在今天十年前开始了这个话题！
我个人对这个想法的看法没有改变。如果存在这个功能，我会默认启用它，用于我管理的两个私有站点上的所有用户。我在那些站点上为自己做的是创建一个第二个账户，我用它来接收电子邮件摘要。
我同意每周摘要 
非常棒，并且能很好地总结近期发生的事情，所有内容都打包在一个精心策划的包里。它们可能会通过让成员了解网站上的动态来吸引他们参与更多讨论。它们也会让参与某个论坛变得更容易，因为成员不必关注太多类别和主题——他们不会错过任何东西。此外，网站所有者可以依赖这些电子邮件摘要来向所有成员传达公告，因此不必设置所有成员默认关注的公告类别。
（请注意，自 2014 年以来，“电子邮件摘要”的概念已经演变为“电子邮件摘要”。我不知道它具体是如何组成的，但电子邮件摘要并不全面，只显示部分活动。）
我actually不知道为什么 @codinghorror 反对将其添加为用户偏好设置——他当时从未给出任何理由。我怀疑我们想鼓励人们参与论坛的讨论，而不是坐等电子邮件摘要出现在他们的收件箱中供他们阅读。也可能存在一些技术/性能方面的原因。电子邮件摘要是针对成员个性化的，这会消耗服务器资源，并且发送它们可能会使发送事务性电子邮件的服务器不堪重负。
过去十年，文化也发生了很大的转变。许多人甚至不再使用电子邮件了！
有一个相关的话题 Set "default email digest frequency" to 3-4 days 关于将电子邮件摘要的持续时间更改为 3 或 4 天，以及能够设置发送摘要的日期。我怀疑这个改变（除了发送给所有人之外）可以大大提高参与度，因为突然之间你会看到很多人同时登录！
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但是摘要是基于您上次登录的时间，所以对于那些已经访问过的人来说，摘要会是空的，不是吗？
如果您收到每周电子邮件摘要但从不登录，您将收到自上一封电子邮件摘要（一周前收到）以来的活动摘要。这基本上是我们建议发送给那些已登录的用户的内容。
所以你需要生成一个摘要，就好像他们根本没有登录一样，这样摘要就会忽略他们看过的内容？
不看的话，我猜一个插件可以生成摘要，在调用生成摘要的任何东西之前，将 last_login 日期设置为 now - 8 days，或者类似的东西。
考虑到已经 10 年了，我猜这在短期内不会成为一个功能，但我认为它应该可以通过插件来实现（然后我想你会想要一个每个用户的设置来启用它）。