This service shouldn't need to exist.
npm should let you control your notifications. A checkbox, a dropdown, a digest option — anything. They've had years to build it. They chose not to. So here we are.
The problem
Every time you publish a package to npm, you get a "Successfully published" email. There's no way to disable it. No frequency control. No digest option.
If you maintain a monorepo with 20 packages and release weekly, that's 80+ emails per month. Identical emails. All saying the same thing: "your thing published."
For years, developers have been asking npm to add controls. The response has been consistent.
A brief history of asking
First requests appear asking for notification controls. The npm feedback repo starts collecting upvotes.
npm staff responds to the feature request:
Discussion continues to accumulate upvotes. No updates from npm. The feature request sits at 88+ upvotes with 9 downvotes on the staff response.
npm archives the feedback repository. The discussion is now read-only. The feature was never built.
Why we built it anyway
We're developers. We use npm. We got tired of the email flood.
The workarounds aren't great. You can filter emails to trash — but then you lose visibility into what's publishing. You can ignore your inbox — but important emails get buried. Neither option gives you what npm should provide: a simple way to get notified without getting spammed.
So we built the digest option that npm wouldn't. Forward your npm emails to us, and we'll consolidate them into a single daily, weekly, or monthly summary. All your releases, one email.
What we actually want
We'd love to shut this service down.
If npm added a notification preferences page tomorrow — digest options, frequency controls, the ability to opt out — we'd celebrate. We built npmDigest because the alternative was continuing to be annoyed. We're not emotionally attached to running it.
Until that happens, we'll keep the lights on for developers who need it. And if you're from npm and reading this: please just add the checkbox. The community has been asking for years.
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In the meantime
We're here. The digest works. Your inbox can be quiet again.
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