Feature Requests

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Email notification for new posts/threads (not just mentions/DMs)

Currently, members only receive real-time email notifications for unread DMs and mentions/replies (after 4 hours unread) and event emails. General new-thread/post activity that does not mention anyone is only surfaced via the weekly digest (top 3 threads, sent at most once every 5 days). Requesting an option to email members when a new post/thread is created in channels they have access to, separate from the digest and from mentions/DMs. This would help smaller or lower-activity communities keep members aware of new content in near real time, rather than waiting for the weekly digest. Submitted on behalf of Caitlin Ogilvy, admin of Healthy Homes Initiative (Zendesk #51428).

Caitlin Ogilvy 20 days ago

Allow Sub-groups to show on Account > My Groups

I initially wanted to create an onboarding question sorting people into interest groups so I created a parent group of ‘Interests’ for a load of sub-groups because you had to have a parent group to link to the onboarding question. This worked fine, however, I also wanted my members to be able to pick and choose/join and leave their interest groups whenever they wanted, and be able to explore what other interest groups were available. Pulse was really helpful in advising that I could basically only do either; have a parent group and let people choose in onboarding but never change, or use groups without parent to show under Account > My Groups for people to explore and join/leave whenever I chose option 2 as it’s more flexible but I had to add a note in the Welcome DM to tell people where to find My Groups. I think not everyone reads those DMs potentially so I’m intrigued to see how many questions I get about this. A neat solution would be to allow the sub-groups of a parent group to be shown under My groups so that users can both a) enter groups in onboarding AND b) join/leave groups as they please via My Groups. Many thanks, Anja

anja 6 days ago