Weekly digest
What the weekly community digest email contains, how you approve or skip each week, when it is sent or skipped, and how you and your members turn it on or off.
The weekly digest is an email that brings members back: a summary of the past week in one community. It is on by default: every week Zanfia prepares it for you, and it goes out only after you approve it. This article explains what is in it and who controls it.
When it is sent
| Rule | Detail |
|---|---|
| Schedule | Prepared on Wednesday afternoon. Members get it on Thursday from 09:00 (your workspace's time zone), only after you approve it. |
| Scope | One email per community. A member of two communities gets two digests. |
| Period | The last 7 days. |
| Quiet weeks | A community with fewer than 3 new posts in the period sends no digest that week. Near-empty digests are never sent. |
| Language | The member's language. |
Approve or skip this week's digest
On Wednesday afternoon you and your admins get an email with a preview and a notification in the bell. Without your approval, nothing goes out that week.
Open this week's digest
Click the link in the email or the notification, or open Settings → Notifications in the community editor. The This week's digest box shows Preview: what your members will see; switch Preview language to see the other language.
Approve or skip
Click Approve sending or Skip this week; each asks you to confirm. You can change your mind until the end of Thursday. Approved before Thursday 09:00, the digest goes out at 09:00; approved later on Thursday, it goes out right away.
Previous weeks lists the past weeks with their status, for example Sent to [N] members, Not approved or Too few new posts. You can also ask the agent to approve or skip the digest; it asks you to confirm first.
The digest is checked again when it goes out. Posts deleted, hidden, edited or moved after the preview was made, and events cancelled or moved, are left out, and the AI summary is replaced by a short count of the week's activity. If fewer than 3 posts are left, that week's digest is not sent.
What is in the email
The subject is "[community name]: your week". The email contains, in this order:
| Part | Content |
|---|---|
| Greeting | The member's first name. |
| AI summary | A short AI-written paragraph about the week's discussions. Present only when AI summary in the digest is on. |
| Stats | How many new posts, comments and new members the week brought. |
| Top posts | Up to 5 posts, the most discussed first, each with its author, channel, a short preview and comment and reaction counts. |
| Latest posts | Up to 3 recent posts that are not already in the top list. |
| Upcoming events | Up to 3 events from the next two weeks. The section is left out when nothing is scheduled. |
| Visit community | A button that opens the community feed. |
| Unsubscribe link | At the very bottom. |
Each post title links to exactly that post; the member may be asked to log in first.
Private channels stay private. The digest is built for what each member can read, so a post from a restricted or level-gated channel never appears in the email of someone without access, even when it was the most active post of the week.
Turn the digest on or off for the community
Open the Notifications tab
In the community editor go to Settings and open the Notifications tab
(/communities/<productId>/editor/settings/notifications). Its description reads "Configure the
emails and summaries your members receive".
Set the two switches
Weekly digest email sends or stops the digest for the whole community. AI summary in the digest adds or removes the AI-written opening paragraph; the rest of the email is unaffected. Both are on by default.
Save
Click Save. With Weekly digest email off, nobody in the community receives the digest, whatever their personal setting.
How a member opts out
| Way | Steps |
|---|---|
| In the community | Avatar → Profile → Notifications, untick Weekly digest ("A weekly summary of top posts, activity and upcoming events") and Save. |
| From the email | The unsubscribe link at the bottom opens a confirmation page with one button. It works without logging in. |
Both ways stop only the digest. Other community emails, such as a comment on the member's post, keep arriving. The digest exists as an email only; there is no in-app version of it.
Good to know
The digest is sent to members of the community, including you as the owner, so you see what your members see. There is no button to send it on demand and no way to edit its content by hand: you approve or skip the week's digest, and what goes in is decided by the week's activity.
Was this article helpful?