When you get email notifications from Discourse for this forum, they currently include a header with the sender’s icon and user name, then the content, then a section with a portion of the content to which the message is a reply, if applicable. A random example from my email client:
What do you think about cutting the header (the section prior to “Thanks for the hint!” in the message body) and the “In Reply To” section to make the messages more concise and more like the old ParaView email lists?
We did the same in discourse.vtk.org and so far no complaints. An example looks like this:
I’m a big fan of GitHub’s email formatting where there’s a quick reason why you’re receiving the email (“You are receiving this because you authored the thread.”) and an option to visit/mute that thread.
I think it may be useful to also have the ability to mute single threads rather than just an option to unsubscribe from all emails like shown in the VTK discourse email example.
Now that I have received a few emails with the header and footer removed, I strenuously object. When they were removed, it also removed the handy button/link in the email to take you directly to the discourse page. Now there is no link (other than an unsubscribe link), and it is a hastle to get to the discourse page to answer the question.
Oops, I thought I had modified the template the same way I modified the VTK template, but I did not. It should be fixed now so that you get a “Visit topic” link at the bottom. Thanks for the feedback.
