Does this forum have mass email capability?

[Hidamari]

I ran a forum a veeeerrrryyyy long time ago I remember this being a thing in the back end somewhere, though I never had to use it.

This game is losing members, and factions are dying, does this forum have the capability of mass emailing all members of the board?

A few months ago in august the "Jelly" Renegade community in Command & Conquer: Renegade finally died after like 10+ years of running servers for the game.

the owner of the servers and forum sent an email to every person on the board to announce a final date for when the servers would close permanently, (which was only a few days before) people started posting on the forum whom id not seen for 6+ years, and the final event was to capacity, the likes of which had never been seen in the game before. literally 100s of people turned up and the server only had enough room for 100 people, 50 per side.

He actually said "holy shit i should have done that months ago before we got into trouble"

If yes, may I suggest that feature is used on this forum as well, the Jelly renegade forum only had 3212 members, and loads of people turned up.

this forum has 19405 members, A good, solid advertisement emailed to every one of these accounts would mean even at 1% retention of returning players, you would immediately fill the server, of course a lot of the accounts are smurfs and RP accounts so that number isnt 100% reliable, and you also have to account for timezones and when players play, so perhaps a 2.5% retention would be desirable. But that is a huge resource that Im pretty certain isnt being used to the benefit of the server.

Thoughts on this from the staff would be appreciated,

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