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View submission: BETA: Weekly Round-Up and Newsletter | 2020-04-03
If making it opt-in resulted in few people actually opting in, wouldn't that be a sign that it shouldn't be mass sent to everyone?
Comment by Gankom at 04/04/2020 at 15:52 UTC*
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As someone else said, I think it would be better to say its a sign that people don't know it exists.
For example, and please, I'm honestly interested in your answer as part of this whole BETA thing, did you know we have a weekly sticky? How about a special summary bot that does a weekly round up and can be pinged for scheduled messages?
The Sunday Digest goes up every week, stickied to the top of the page but I'm constantly told people don't know it exists. When the Summary Bot went live it got a giant meta thread telling people about it and advertising it. I bring it up all the time in threads and suggest it to people. Turns out, only about 1000 currently subscribe to it. But we've got more then a million subscribers for the sub.
The thing is, I don't think that's a sign that people *don't want* stuff like that. People are constantly asking for it. I think it's more of a sign that people don't know it exists. And I'd be concerned that a strictly Op-In mailer would be exactly the same. How do we inform a million people that this new feature now exists?
For what it's worth I lean towards one message that goes out to everyone at the start that says "Hey subscribers, this is a new feature. To continue receiving it CLICK HERE to be subscribed."
if you don't click on the initial, you don't get another one. A nice mix of opt-in and opt-out.
Comment by jofwu at 04/04/2020 at 13:52 UTC
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No, it would be a sign that people aren't aware it exists.