Hey y’all, I would propose using the agora forum! Please respond with a heart to this post, if you are in favor with this suggestion >> If there are several positive responses, I would like you @Anne_Arndt_Jacobi to open the new category/group for us. Thank a lot!
(I will add suggestions concerning the sub-themes in the next post)
We created the category “municipal degrowth” for your working group:
You can/should now use this category for posts related to that topic
Furthermore we created a group “municipal_degrowth”. The group is not strictly necessary, but it is useful to keep an overview of your members and you can message and mention the whole group via @municipal_degrowth.
You can join by pressing the “join” button here: https://agora.degrowth.net/g/municipal_degrowth
or here: Degrowth
Hi everyone and thanks again for creating this group @Anne_Arndt_Jacobi.
There was a lot of interest in the creation of such a research group, but for now, only five people have found their way into the group on agora/discourse.
Shall we email everyone who posted their address in the discord channel, so they can find their way to this forum and the group?
I also wonder if everyone who gave the initial post a gets a notification if someone posts a new reply … probably only if you give it a , right?
Hi Clemens, I think it would be a great idea to email all the ppl that were interested, maybe also an email list would work in the beginning? Still haven`t the feeling that I actually understand Agora
I wrote an email to those who left theirs in the discord chat to join the group and this thread.
I think it’s indeed nicer to use this forum (as it can do more than a mailing list) — I believe we can teach each other how to use it in a useful way.
From what I understand, the group is mainly a way to keep different threads/topics (like those that Anton suggested) organised, a bit like a folder: Topics in Municipal Degrowth @karen You might also find these short how tos helpful:
I think one issue is that the people who hit that -button don’t receive notifications about this topic … maybe @FranziH or @Julia_Hut can confirm (sorry to pick your names randomly, but these are the ones I can see when hovering). You become a “user” of a topic by replying (or possibly also by giving a heart) to the topic, which makes you receive notifications/e-mails about updates in the end.
you are right: none of the icons - including the separate heart (this is special for “like”) - lead to email notifications for the one who presses the icon.
Only the author of the “liked post” gets an email notification (according to his/her preferences “Notify when liked” in the notifications section). For general email notification see our new thread: How to set up your email notifications.
You probably meant that a category is like a folder. The concept of a group is related to addressing people or to controlling access to a category (as described here: Why and how to join a group)
hi all
true that - i didnt get any email notification… so now i joined the group and commented this thread - lets hope i will be kept updated through that
gets a notification if someone posts a new reply … probably only if you give it a 
, right?
