Yeah agree with that although I have been cautious about flooding members with a daily mailchimp email with a unsubscribe button (i think the daily digest directs you to unsubscribe from with your forem profile settings rather than mailchimp).
I think it comes down to good moderation initially, if your forem is small then it’s much easier to moderate the content which in turn will allow for a higher value daily digest.
Agree on the frequency, would be great if that was customisable, maybe ever 3 days to fill in the newsletter gap or whatever you choose.
This is an area that I have a lot of feelings about! I really hope we get to it soon, because I believe it has the potential to impact a lot of communities' growth.
I thought Forem newsletter feature was automated and done through Mailchimp but if im understanding you correctly, the "periodic email digests" via Forem are not available to us yet?
The digest are available to all Forems which meet the minimum posting rate to trigger them. Right now that's fixed to 3 posts per day, possibly because fewer posts result in less varied content for the digest (I'm merely guessing it's to avoid repetition, so maybe @ben can better explain the reason for that number).
There are a lot of feature requests and issues in the repo for more Admin UI control over automated emails, digests, etc. We're really hoping @jennieocken and @amyatforem green light an overhaul soon, with the generalization of the newsletter API as part of that project, because in all honesty it still feels like legacy architecture from DEV.
@lee's feature requests in GitHub Discussions are helping move things in the right direction, along with requests from @noeltime and yours truly, so I encourage anyone who wants to join the conversation to weigh into these!
Perfect, really looking forward to whats coming here, these are great innovative Forem features that I personally really like. In terms of the 3 posts per day, is that triggered per tag or will it fire at just 3 posts regardless?
The digest are available to all Forems which meet the minimum posting rate to trigger them. Right now that's fixed to 3 posts per day, possibly because fewer posts result in less varied content for the digest (I'm merely guessing it's to avoid repetition, so maybe @ben can better explain the reason for that number).
Yes, these are technically available, but fairly tightly configured to DEV's values. I think these would have to be adjustable for the automatic digests to go out similarly to DEV.
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Yeah agree with that although I have been cautious about flooding members with a daily mailchimp email with a unsubscribe button (i think the daily digest directs you to unsubscribe from with your forem profile settings rather than mailchimp).
I think it comes down to good moderation initially, if your forem is small then it’s much easier to moderate the content which in turn will allow for a higher value daily digest.
Agree on the frequency, would be great if that was customisable, maybe ever 3 days to fill in the newsletter gap or whatever you choose.
This is an area that I have a lot of feelings about! I really hope we get to it soon, because I believe it has the potential to impact a lot of communities' growth.
The digest are available to all Forems which meet the minimum posting rate to trigger them. Right now that's fixed to 3 posts per day, possibly because fewer posts result in less varied content for the digest (I'm merely guessing it's to avoid repetition, so maybe @ben can better explain the reason for that number).
There are a lot of feature requests and issues in the repo for more Admin UI control over automated emails, digests, etc. We're really hoping @jennieocken and @amyatforem green light an overhaul soon, with the generalization of the newsletter API as part of that project, because in all honesty it still feels like legacy architecture from DEV.
@lee's feature requests in GitHub Discussions are helping move things in the right direction, along with requests from @noeltime and yours truly, so I encourage anyone who wants to join the conversation to weigh into these!
Perfect, really looking forward to whats coming here, these are great innovative Forem features that I personally really like. In terms of the 3 posts per day, is that triggered per tag or will it fire at just 3 posts regardless?
Yes, these are technically available, but fairly tightly configured to DEV's values. I think these would have to be adjustable for the automatic digests to go out similarly to DEV.