Usare Discourse come newsletter

[tornasolada]

The objective is to link users from an external website to Discourse signup form in order to subscribe to a specific group that will be used as a newsletter. However in its current form Discourse signup form requires the users to enter a password and this is not something users will do when signing up for a newsletter.

Is there a way to singup to Discourse with only an email address and no password required by the signup form similar to the invite functionality? Perhaps by adding a route to a given point say discourse.tld/newsletter?

I would like to avoid calling the API from an external website.

[franzperdido]

Trovo anch’io questa funzione molto utile.
Solo una parte dei nostri utenti sarà attiva nel forum, ma vorremmo comunque disporre di una funzione per inviare regolarmente newsletter a un gruppo più ampio di persone che desiderano essere aggiornate ma non vogliono registrarsi con una password.

[laem (Mael)]

Sì, sarebbe utile anche per noi.
Le notifiche di Discourse sono buone, perché usare un secondo strumento?

[alangibson]

C’è una discussione pertinente in corso qui:

Watch topic using email address without requiring registration

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