Notifications

Quipthread emails you when new comments need moderation. Comments are grouped into digests to avoid a message for every comment, and each comment in a digest has links to approve or reject it straight from the email.

Comments that are approved automatically, from commenters you have approved before, do not trigger a notification.

Quipthread Cloud

Digests go to the email address on the account that owns the site. There is nothing to configure.

Comments are collected in 5-minute windows, and each window’s digest goes out when the window closes, so you hear about a new comment within about 5 minutes. On the Pro plan and above, you can change the window per site on the Sites page under Notifications: 1, 5, 15, or 30 minutes, or 1 hour.

Self-hosted

Self-hosted instances send digests over SMTP, using the same settings as email sign-in:

SMTP_HOST=smtp.example.com
SMTP_USER=[email protected]
SMTP_PASS=your-password
SMTP_FROM=[email protected]

# Optional: recipient when the site owner's account has no email address
NOTIFY_EMAIL_TO=[email protected]

A digest goes out as soon as comments are waiting if no digest was sent in the last 5 minutes. Otherwise it waits until 5 minutes have passed, or until NOTIFY_BATCH_SIZE comments are waiting, whichever comes first.

NOTIFY_BATCH_SIZE=5      # default: 5