Using Discourse as a newsletter

[alangibson]

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Watch topic using email address without requiring registration

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…