Daily email summary of forum activity?

Is it possible to receive a single daily email summarising activity in the forum?

If I enable ‘Mailing list mode’ in Preferences | Emails, the only options are ‘Send an email for every post’ and ‘Send an email for every post except mine.’ both of which warn of up to 70 emails per day.

Nothing in Preferences | Tracking that looks like it would work either. Any ideas?

This was raised a long time ago in this (now closed) User Query dealing with the Discourse Activity Summary

The last response there was @Manoj saying

Just checked. It is indeed suppressed. Not sure why or who has done it. Will check with the infra team in case there are some issues in enabling it again.

If this feature could be enabled I think it would do what I’m after.

Thanks

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I remember this option had to be suppressed as users complained they were getting emails with the summary!
I have enable the option now. Users should by default get a summary email.
To disable it at a user level you can

  • Configuring user options

Users can customize their activity summary email preferences:

  1. Go to user preferences
  2. Navigate to the “Emails” tab
  3. Adjust the “Activity Summary” frequency

Available frequency options are:

  • Never
  • Every 30 minutes
  • Every hour
  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Every month
  • Every six months

For Reference check this guide on Discourse site

Suggest users try it out and let me know how they want it customized further.

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Thanks @Manoj

I’ve enabled the option, and set my preference to ‘Daily’

The text of the setting says

When I don’t visit here, send me an email summary of popular topics and replies

One thing that springs to mind before I use it is that I would like the daily email whether or not I have visited the site that day. I would like to be able to e.g. visit the site to respond to a specific post or message, and still get the daily Activity Summary email. Reading the page from the Dicourse site, I realise that may not be possible. Anyway, I’ll see how I get on with the current setup

Thanks again

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Well I got a summary email this morning :slight_smile:

INterested to see if I get one tomorrow morning as I have visited the forum today :slight_smile: