This sums it up nicely. Here on meta, we’ve been through this conversation several times already through the years, and I’ve resigned myself to look to the future and think of discourse more as a self-hosted facebook equivalent than an upgrade to mailman or google groups.
Here are two readily available examples:
We are facing this in my community as well, but the approach we are taking is actually the opposite - the benefits of logging in are so great that we push back (gently, gently) to get people to log in more and more. We’ve found that explaining the benefits works. It’s better and more fun to participate in discussions by logging in, and it’s pretty easy to do so. On the other hand supporting email-in users by fixing their posts, answering questions and smoothing over frustrations are a real heada…
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 th…