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by kossmoboleat 2323 days ago
Great idea, I've signed up already.

I have a pretty obvious feature request: I'd like to be able to pace weekly mails to a specific day of the week. I receive a couple of interesting newsletters, but they tend to arrive distributed all over the week and I'd prefer to receive them all for the weekend, i.e. Friday night.

So extending your original idea one could add more specific terms in your subdomain hierarchy. I.e. 19.friday.weekly.paced.email or 7pm.friday.weekly.paced.email.

I assume you should record the user's timezone on sign-up maybe? Or encode it too in a subdomain. I'm not sure which would be more consistent/simple idea...

I've you'd like to implement full cron schedules I'd assume you'd have to replace the wildcard * symbol somehow, but that seems more like an advanced/geek future and would have less appeal for mainstream users.

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Hey kossmoboleat, thanks for signing up. I just found your reply. Not sure if you'll see this, but I do have some features on the horizon to accomplish this.

As you suggested, I will be allowing users to add their time zone and then a bit of UI for you to select day/hour for each of the periods supported. This is going to be pretty much next on the roadmap.

Rikki