# Using Discourse as a newsletter
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-newsletter/141308
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 11, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-newsletter/141308 "2020-02-11T17:25:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tornasolada](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tornasolada)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-newsletter/141308/1 "2020-02-11T17:25:17Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@franzperdido](https://meta.discourse.org/u/franzperdido)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-newsletter/141308/2 "2020-06-05T10:09:34Z")
I also find this feature very useful.
Only a subset of our userbase will be active in the forum but we still would like to have a feature to send regular newsletters to a larger group of people who want to be updated but would not sign up with a password.
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### Author:  [@laem](https://meta.discourse.org/u/laem)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-newsletter/141308/3 "2021-02-18T16:10:37Z")
Yes that would be helpful for us too.
Discourse’s notifications are good, why use a second tool ?
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### Author:  [@alangibson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alangibson)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-newsletter/141308/4 "2022-01-15T15:50:05Z")
There’s a relevant discussion going on here:
> [@Watch topic using email address without requiring registration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watch-topic-using-email-address-without-requiring-registration/214318/31):
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> I’ve spent some quality time digging through the code. I think something like this (warning: very likely not working as I haven’t tried it yet) would work to allow the user to post a reply with just an email. I’d appreciate any comments you have. I’m especially not sure if this is the best way to create a staged user. I haven’t found any method that specifically creates staged users though. class SomePluginController \< ApplicationController # Make sure there is a staged user in the db def…