{"id":2885,"date":"2016-03-22T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2016-03-22T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:53:25","slug":"how-to-turn-a-google-community-into-a-quasi-mailing-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"how to turn a google+ community into a quasi &#8220;mailing list&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred by a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/d\/msg\/bglug\/vQRADKtsG34\/Yc-dmTICBQAJ\">question<\/a> from an acquaintance in town, I <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+WarrenMyers\/posts\/EK3PZf6KqJp\">asked<\/a> on Google+ whether or not you can enable emailed notifications for a Community. This led to the elaborate <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/settings\">Settings<\/a> page for G+.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that if you combine enabling a Community&#8217;s &#8220;Community notifications&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vertical-ellipsis.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2889\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2889\" src=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vertical-ellipsis-300x171.png\" alt=\"vertical-ellipsis\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vertical-ellipsis-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vertical-ellipsis.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/community-settings.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2888\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2888\" src=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/community-settings-300x162.png\" alt=\"community-settings\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a> (under the specific Community&#8217;s settings (which you find by clicking the vertical ellipsis button on the Community page) with the following tree in your general Google+ settings, Notifications -&gt; Email -&gt; Communities -&gt;\u00a0Shares something with a community you get notifications from, <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/notifications-email.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2890\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2890\" src=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/notifications-email-300x190.png\" alt=\"notifications-email\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>you get a &#8220;mailing list&#8221; of sorts from your Community, which, niftily enough, also allows you to comment on the post <em>via email<\/em> (at least on the first notification of said post)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred by a recent question from an acquaintance in town, I asked on Google+ whether or not you can enable emailed notifications for a Community. This led to the elaborate Settings page for G+. It turns out that if you combine enabling a Community&#8217;s &#8220;Community notifications&#8221; (under the specific Community&#8217;s settings (which you find by &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2885\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">how to turn a google+ community into a quasi &#8220;mailing list&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41,45],"tags":[188,275,358,460,690],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","category-tutorial","tag-community","tag-email","tag-google","tag-mailing-list","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}