Feature request: “notify all” option
I would love the ability (for admins/moderators) to notify everyone of a certain question (via email and as a notification).
For example, in my case, there are certain questions I would like everyone to see and answer on a weekly basis – and it would be great if there was an easy way to notify my whole community (instead of writing an email and manually linking to the question every time).
Just like you go to [more actions] and have these options:
- Edit
- Flag
- Set as featured
- Delete
- Delete permanently
- *Notify all users
You would have the option to “notify all users” that would send the question to all users via email and as a simple Anspress notification (with a certain role maybe?). Another option would be to have something like a wildcard mention [@everyone] that would work for admins only.
This would greatly help with community building and engagement and saves a lot of time when compared to doing it manually.
Lemme know what you think! 🙂
1. The request is not absurd from a user perspective, exactly as hendre above says: “It is really hard to get a new community going if you don’t have this since people don’t just randomly check the site every day. To get a critical mass of users you need email notifications to encourage them to go to the site.”.
2. If it not technically feasible or you have a good reason not to develop this feature (Mandrill and Sparkpost may disagree with you on email doesn’t scale), then please say so. There is no need to be rude.
Hello Andy,
We don’t mean to be rude. Indeed, this feature is not hard to implement but we mean to say it will not be usable in shared hosting. We can surely develop a premium plugin which notify all of users using SMTP or 3rd party API. Thanks for suggestion.
Thanks Rahul, that is fair enough.
I too would like some built-in ability to ‘notify all’ for new questions. In fact, I would like it to be automatic, the same way that the ‘Notify Admin’ is setup. It would be nice to have an additional email that the ‘Notify’ options could be setup for. The main reason for us is that our users (intranet) don’t frequent the site, but if they were emailed about questions that are being submitted I believe that many would login to the site to comment and respond.
At the moment I intend to use the ‘Notify Admin’ to forward to the users, but that limits the options I would enable and then removes notification of other options for me (the admin).
Just a thought.