How to get there: Open any changelog board → click the people icon next to the subscriber count in the header (admin-only).
End users can subscribe to a changelog board to receive an email whenever a new entry is published. Admins can browse, search, and export the subscriber list.
How users subscribe
On every changelog board, users see a "Subscribe" link next to the RSS link in the header. Clicking it (when logged in) adds them to the subscriber list. Clicking again unsubscribes them. They can also unsubscribe from any changelog email via the footer link.
The subscriber count is shown to admins next to the subscribe link, for example "12".
Viewing the subscriber list
- Open the changelog board.
- Click the people icon with the subscriber count.
- A modal opens listing every subscriber with name, email, and the date they subscribed.
Use the search box to filter by name or email. The list is paginated, use Prev and Next to move through pages.
Exporting subscribers
Click Export CSV in the subscriber modal to download the full list. The CSV contains:
- Name
- Email
- Subscribed At (timestamp)
The export ignores the current search and pagination, you always get every subscriber for that board. The file is UTF-8 with a BOM so Excel opens it correctly.
When subscribers get emailed
A subscriber receives an email when:
- A post on the changelog board is published (either immediately or via Scheduled Publishing).
- The post was not imported (imports do not trigger notifications).
- The post has a status that belongs to this changelog board.
- The subscriber has not unsubscribed from emails entirely.
- The post has Notify subscribers turned on (the default).
Marking a post internal or unpublishing it does not retroactively email anyone.
Publish silently (skip the subscriber email)
Sometimes you want to add a changelog entry without emailing everyone, for example a typo fix, a tiny clarification, or a backfilled historical release.
Where to find it:
- When creating a post on a changelog board, open the Publication & Status section in the create form. A Notify subscribers switch appears (only on changelog boards). Leave it on to email subscribers, turn it off to publish silently.
- When editing an existing post on a changelog board, open the right-hand Publication & Status sidebar. The Notify subscribers row sits next to the Published toggle. The toggle disappears once the broadcast has already been sent (so the UI is honest about what it can still do).
How it behaves:
- The setting is sticky across all trigger paths. If you set it to off and then schedule the post to publish next week, the cron-driven publish will still skip the email.
- It also blocks the email when you move an already-published post from another board onto the changelog. Set it before doing the status move.
- The setting is per post, not per board. Each new post defaults to on.
- A silently-published post leaves no trace in the per-post Notifications tab or the admin Activity feed, because no broadcast happened. Compare with a normal broadcast which records "Changelog email broadcast to N subscribers" on both surfaces.
- Once subscribers have been emailed for a post, the toggle is hidden. You cannot retroactively un-send an email.
Per-board subscriptions
Each changelog board has its own subscriber list. A user who wants updates from two changelog boards must subscribe to both. There is no portal-wide "all changelogs" subscription.