Any chance for a Daily Digest email option to be sent for the forum ?
Example, only a list of hyperlinked thread titles where at least one message was posted the last 24hrs.
Or an RSS feed?
Same purpose, different technology.
Personally, I prefer to use email for personal correspondence only, hence my preference for RSS. Other people have different preferences, so having the choice would be great.
What I think is important is that, from the point of view of growing EuroGA, if such a feature was implemented, people get a message digest which is in a form which draws them back to the site so they write something 
True indeed.
With a Daily Digest or RSS feed you see what was posted and within a click away you visit the forum.
When no such updates exist you rely solely on someone remembering and caring to visit the site as often as he/she chooses to.
I’ve never used RSS feed but a simple daily digest email with hyperlinked thread titles for direct click & browse is a nice chance from me to catch up with the last day’s subjects during a coffee break or a boring phone call at the office or similar.
Just bumping up an old thread.
Dear Admin’s please consider this feature again !
It is a really neat function by seeing how it works in other fora I am subscribed to.
This is “on the to-do list”, but no current timescale.
I get a regular email from a couple of other sites I frequent, and I don’t find them particularly useful. They certainly don’t draw me into posting.
I think that places like EuroGA are where you go if you either have a specific piece of information, OR you are indulging in idle gossip asyou would in the pub
It’s a tricky one.
Apart from David’d time implementing it, we don’t actually want it unless it gets more people contributing to the site.
I would not want this comment to be taken the wrong way but if EuroGA was a €300/year aviation news magazine, then of course one would implement every possible means of content delivery because one wants to get €300 from as many people as possible and one doesn’t care what they do with it.
But EuroGA is a community site, which thrives via peoples’ contributions. For the most part, the contributions here are of high quality. But people won’t bother making them if they are among a small and declining group of posters. That is what has happened to most other aviation forums – the big US sites being an exception. Most of the people who used to post intelligent material that was worth reading, have left them during the last few years, leaving the sites to sink into drivel and zero-information one-liners. And that was why EuroGA was started!
I can see that an email digest would make some readers post more, but it could also make a larger number of people not visit the site at all.
I am careful to not bring too much of my own slant on this, because my “internet habits” are probably different to those of most others, but when it comes to the pilot forum scene I have been there, done it, got the T-shirt (as the Americans say) since c. 2003 and seen a lot of stuff go on that I don’t want to see again!
The only time I found a “message digest” to be useful was with one particular subscription forum which had almost no activity (maybe 1 post a day) but the posts came mostly from 1 or 2 individuals who were well connected. For that site, it was handy. And I still get message digests from some very low activity specialist software sites. I would never bother to visit the web-based forums for any of these sites because most of the time there would be nothing new there. But EuroGA is not like that, with 50-80 posts per day.
I don’t understand why a daily digest draws you or not to post/visit more !
All you get is basically a snapshot of last 24hrs active threads with just one hyperlinked subject at each line in an email.
Why would this make you less prone to browse the forum ?
The email is something you (selectively I guess from user settings) receive daily and makes the forum post “a click away’s” distance.
Best practice I have seen is for the user to have a choice also as to which subforums he subscribes to, the ones which he/she finds more interesting i.e. not all of them.
Yes in this case the specific user may miss some discussions in a subforum he is not interested in but, so what, this was the case since the beginning anyway.
The action of visiting a site to check yourself the recent activity relies on various factors but mainly it is something you decide to do it at an own initiative.
Some people do not take this initiative simply because of being preoccupied with various things all day and forgetting.
This is the share of the pie that the daily digest grabs and keeps them coming back often.
For the ones who visit daily off course nothing changes.
Such a daily digest might well attract lurkers – meaning nothing negative, perhaps I should rather say “read-only participants”. This would likely increase the number of forum reads, and that is a major incentive to most forums because every read brings them income from the adverts. The efforts of David and Peter seem rather aimed at attracting active contributors, and apparently they see little relation between the two “categories”. Myself would think that if a hundred lurkers could be attracted, 90 would go away as lightly as they came, 9 might remain true lurkers, genuinely appreciating the forum, and one might become an active contributor. But I am not a specialist in internet sociality, not by a long way.
