Get your members set up with an email digest
Auto-subscribe everyone to a digest, instantly!
Follow the instructions shared in the Lowdown app in Slack to set up a digest for everyone. Simply press the button and follow the steps to have it set up in seconds and be sent automatically.
Offer digests to everyone
Visit your dashboard and decide if you'd like to offer digests by direct message or in a channel. Both options let you send a fully customisable message to your members with a button to set up a digest. It all takes place in Slack too.
Offer digests to individuals
We also let you send a direct message offering a digest to specific members from the member’s table on your dashboard. Please note this uses the same text as the DM to everyone.
💡Pro-tip: Your members can also set up and edit a digest by typing /lowdown settings anywhere in Slack
Welcome new members (and optionally offer a digest)
From your dashboard you can set up a welcome message which includes an optional button to set up a personal digest. If you'd like to use Lowdown just like Greetbot you can!
Learn what's popular
Once your members start signing up, you'll see on your dashboard the 10 channels appearing most frequently in digests. It gives you a unique insight into which parts of your Slack community you should develop.
How Lowdown creates digests
Lowdown takes a variety of factors into account, trying where possible to filter out any replies and instead share the best conversation-starting messages. Here are a few of the things we look for:
- Popularity. Posts with the most emoji reactions and replies.
- Importance. Posts with signals of being important.
- Links. Posts which share interesting links.
- Images. Posts which share images.
We're always working to improve how Lowdown decides which posts to improve. If you'd like to make a suggestion let us know!
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How to highlight posts you want to appear in digests
React to a post you want to highlight with a few emojis 🚀😍🐶