# Spread out Digest emails to mitigate sudden traffic?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/spread-out-digest-emails-to-mitigate-sudden-traffic/31425>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** activity-summary\
**Created:** [Julho 25, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spread-out-digest-emails-to-mitigate-sudden-traffic/31425 "2015-07-25T14:54:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [Julho 26, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spread-out-digest-emails-to-mitigate-sudden-traffic/31425/2 "2015-07-26T00:49:09Z")

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We should add some random variation to when we send these out. But it seems unlikely you would have perf problems from even a few hundred people clicking through. And people don’t always read their email at the same time.

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