This week we’ve been looking at how people interact with Loomio via email.

The number one problem we’ve heard is that people don’t get emailed about new comments, so sometimes it can feel like you’re speaking into an empty room.

We’ve built a prototype solution to this problem: an email that arrives once each morning, with all of the new content that you haven’t read from the past day.

We’ve been playing with it for the last few days and we’re pretty excited, but we want to get some more feedback before we release it widely. If you want to try out this new feature, just go to your email preferences page and switch it on - you should get an email at 6am tomorrow.

Then come back here tomorrow and add your feedback! Together I think we can come up with a really great feature!

Some more details for the geeks :)

Currently, the ‘Yesterday on Loomio’ email is generated based on your Inbox preferences - which means you can configure what groups you are interested in. We’re thinking about this as the groups that you are following - we’ll probably change the interface to reflect that soon.

This is the first step in a major overhaul in how we keep you up to date with content.

The next phase will look at the discussions you are participating in (a subset of following) - i.e. if you have commented, started the discussion, or been mentioned in it. You’ll have the option to be emailed immediately about new content in those discussions.

We imagine eventually the default setting will be: you'll be emailed once per day, with a summary of all the content you haven't read yet, and you'll be emailed immediately about stuff you’re participating in.

Once that is sorted out, we get to the really exciting stuff: reply by email. This means you will be able to reply from your email client, and your comment will be added to the discussion on Loomio.