What is the best way to get relevant notifications?

[amanda-matthes]

the problem

How can users stay up-to-date/engaged with discussions without having to manually check the forum all the time?

Right now, this forum is small and not much is going on. So people can get notifications for everything by watching this repo which hosts the discussions. But hopefully this community will grow and eventually this will just cause people's inbox to get spammed.

some ideas/notes

I could write an automation that creates a weekly digest which could then be uploaded to Substack (or similar) which people then can subscribe to for email updates. Seems to be reasonably easy to do.

GitHub offers RSS for Discussions. In this case: https://github.com/High-Impact-Engineers/High-Impact-Engineers/discussions.atom. Users could use this directly. But it could also simplify creating a newsletter or similar (since RSS readers are still quite niche).

I think the first version should just include everything on a weekly or monthly basis in some condensed format. But eventually, it would be cool to let people subscribe to specific categories.

next steps

Opening this thread to keep myself accountable and to hear people's suggestions for features and implementation. Feel free to subscribe to the thread for updates.

[martin2664]

For events, you could set up a calendar on luma, where people can sign up to for upcoming events (email notifications, calendar feed, ...).