Discourse is great software with one dark pattern that I absolutely loathe: by default, it turns on an obnoxious setting to send you digest emails when you stop visiting a forum.
So when you sign up for a forum to ask a single question and then move on, rather than correctly infer you are not interested in the forum anymore, they start sending you low-value emails until you get tired enough of them to login and change the setting.
If you run a Discourse, please change the default setting. Don’t use lame growth hacking features to nudge people into participating in a community they don’t want to be a part of.
rgovostes|1 year ago
So when you sign up for a forum to ask a single question and then move on, rather than correctly infer you are not interested in the forum anymore, they start sending you low-value emails until you get tired enough of them to login and change the setting.
If you run a Discourse, please change the default setting. Don’t use lame growth hacking features to nudge people into participating in a community they don’t want to be a part of.
meetingthrower|1 year ago
Jsttan|1 year ago