Hey! 
For those who use emails a lot and/or want to post on unicyclist.com from work if they canāt freely browse the Web 
You can now post new topics in most categories via email 
Feel free to share any issue if a topic isnāt posted.
The topic will be published after 5 minutes at most.
Out of curiosity is the email functionality used often? Very cool to have options but I love the site and itās GUI myself. So simple and nice
People often (daily) reply to PMs or topics by email since the new software.
Creating a new topic is less straightforward (since you have to create an email instead of replying to one), wasnāt configured until now and I believe it wonāt be used a lot. Still, itās a nice addition
The important question isā¦ will I get another badge if I do this? 
There is no associated badgeā¦ Is someone knows how to create a Discourse SQL query for this, it could be done. I donāt have the skills 
Oh well, thereās 1 badge when we reply by email:
https://unicyclist.com/badges/43/first-reply-by-email
Given the query, it should be granted even when we create a topic despite the badge mentioning āfirst replyā.
Post.select(:id, :created_at, :user_id)
.secured(Guardian.new)
.visible
.public_posts
.where(via_email: true)
.where("post_number > 1")
.find_in_batches do |group|
group.each { |p| to_award[p.user_id] ||= { post_id: p.id, created_at: p.created_at } }
end
Seems fairly simple, and I could probably create a custom badge for new topics created by email as wellā¦ 
Donāt make a new badge on my account. I was only half serious. I wouldnāt want you to put the effort in for my sake.
P.S. I already have the one for replies! 
I started a new thread by email earlier - took a while to appear for me, but otherwise worked, except I needed to edit it here to get a video link to work. Didnāt get the email badge (yet) however.
Badges are triggered by background jobs that run like once every day or something like this, so itās not instant.
Thanks - I waited a day but then decided to reply to this by email - belt and braces - and all this for a more meaningful badge!
Soā¦ The email badge appears immediately when I replied by email as above (as intended), but didnāt appear even after a day when I started a new topic by email. So I think it still only works for replying - which is what it says it works for, so no problems
I think the badge description mentions only ārepliesā and a first post isnāt a reply, so thatās logical, but in my opinion the badge should be granted when we create a topic, and description re-written to take this into account.