Email digest
adamjonas opened this issue · 12 comments
Subscribe to a daily or weekly email digest
(This is probably a backend job)
@adamjonas would you prefer we use a third-party service or build from scratch an email service?
We should probably use an external service to automate this. Writing it ourselves might not be as robust and efficient as using a dedicated service. We probably won't exhaust a free trial mail count.
3rd party. We don't need to reinvent the wheel. @nourou4them want to take a shot at setting this up?
Let's start with a weekly newsletter.
My guess is that involves a new backend action that aggregates posts from the previous week. It points to the ongoing active discussions but emphasizes summarizes of the new replies and separately summarizes the new threads that have started that week.
I am taking a look at it @adamjonas
In my opinion, I don't think this requires a dedicated backend. We can write a cron job in the nextjs app server and automate the process (with github actions perhaps)
Yes it will require a certain level of automation in order to retrieve summaries and post to include in the newsletter.
For the subscriptions and the distribution, we may use a 3rd party solution.
Didn't mean to imply adding a backend. I just meant a new json file generated from a new GH action.
Here is a first version of the template.
https://us21.campaign-archive.com/?u=adc2c3c2db915408c1fa43a3a&id=9929b64c5b
All the necessary infrastructure to ship a weekly newsletter is in place.
Waiting for #79 to be done in order to retrieve emails and start sending campaigns.
In this case, the backend is the mailing list summaries repo where the json will be stored.
Yes, pretty much.
The json file is the source of the content, then there is a medium level of automation that is done above it.