datamade/nyc-councilmatic

simple help text for email alerts for /about

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How often delivered? As they happen, as in RSS feed, right @mccc ? Or is there a default daily reminder email. As they happen is better, we think.

cc @cathydeng just for her info. I'll take first draft of this, easy.

mccc commented

My goal during all of this is that everything could happen as real-time as the scraper could handle (IMO the fact that we only scrape once a day limits the site's utility for hardcore users who are going to prefer a more up-to-date site), although one can also imagine users preferring daily emails. Those emails would probably have to be initiated by a separate cron job, though it could use the same notifications_email() redis queue to ultimately deliver them.

I believe we have this taken care of, thanks to the new modal pop-ups, for example:

screen shot 2016-12-30 at 10 25 45 am

Let me know if you need something more!

Long over due for a closing.....