[rgovostes]

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.