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Clearer wording on the email preview page - #1151

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Follow-up to #1137: clearer wording on /onboarding-email-preview for the chapter leads it is shared with. Page text only; no change to the emails or to how the page works.

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Email preview page: intro, chapter guide, form set to Germany / Volunteer / Lead / English, summary sentence and the top of the rendered email

The preview page on this branch (Germany, Volunteer / Lead, English).

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# Where Before After
1 Guide "…as the chapters named above did" (nothing named just above) "…pick a country marked "writes its own" below to read theirs, and if it says "for volunteers", set Intent to Volunteer / Lead"
2 Guide "(Copy text below copies the version on screen)" "(Copy text below copies the subject and text of the email shown)"
3 Guide "one for volunteers and one for non-volunteers" "one for Volunteer / Lead and one for None / Act now"
4 Guide "Every chapter's own email also includes these two lines." "We add these two lines to every chapter's own email."
5 Guide "Please mention … Discord, and that both are in English." "In your email, please mention … Discord. If your email isn't in English, say that both are in English."
6 Guide "…your chapter's social links … and we will put it in." "…your chapter's links … and we will set it up."
7 Top line "Set the supporter's name, country and intent below…" "…country and why they signed up (their intent) below…"
8 Intro "written centrally … with a short part about the local chapter" "written by PauseAI Global … with a short part about the local chapter where there is one"
9 Country option "— no chapter in their country —" "— any other country (no chapter part) —"
10 Country hint "The 21 countries whose chapter PauseAI Global points new signups to … including the US: …" "The 21 countries whose chapter PauseAI Global connects new signups with. Any other country gets the shared email without a chapter part. The US isn't listed, because PauseAI US welcomes its own members."
11 Intent hint "…a chapter's own email can be the same whatever they picked." "Volunteer and Lead get the same email. Some chapters send the same email whatever the intent."
12 Language hint (changeable) "Which language the shared email is written in. Signups from Spanish-speaking countries always get Spanish; anyone else gets it if they listed Spanish among their languages." "Pick which version to preview. Volunteer / Lead signups get Spanish if they said they speak Spanish on the sign-up form or live in a Spanish-speaking country, and English otherwise."
12a Language hint (Spanish-speaking country) "Volunteers from Spain always get the Spanish version, whatever languages they listed." "Volunteer / Lead signups from Spain always get the Spanish version, whatever languages they speak."
12b Language hint (chapter's own email) "PauseAI UK writes its own email, in English." "PauseAI UK's own email is always in English."
13 Button "Show as text" / "Show as email" "Show text only" / "Show formatted email" (distinct from the Plain note layout)
14 Summary "…so it has no country chapter part" / "The email for non-volunteers only exists in English…" "…instead of a country's chapter" / "The shared email for None and Act now only exists in English…"
15 Summary "…has no links on pauseai.info/national-groups yet." "yet" dropped: the data doesn't say whether links are coming
16 Copy failure "Couldn't copy: your browser blocked it." "Couldn't copy automatically." (the code can't know the cause)
17 Developer section "Rendered by /api/onboarding-email" "Uses the same renderer as /api/onboarding-email" (the page calls the renderer directly)

Review

Codex reviewed the wording against the email code: #10 was misleading ("countries with a PauseAI chapter" when the list is only those Global connects signups with), #13, #16 and #17 came from it, and it confirmed "We add these two lines", "Some chapters send the same email whatever the intent" and the "writes its own" marker are accurate. Not taken: a note that the preview's newsletter line differs from live shared emails (kept as is by decision), and renaming "chapter part" throughout.

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pnpm check 0 errors, eslint / prettier clean; every changed sentence checked in the rendered page.

…e chapters named above"

The guide sits below the intro that names them, so "above" didn't point
anywhere a reader could find.
- Say PauseAI Global writes the shared email, and explain "intent" where
  it first appears.
- Say we add the two fixed lines to chapter emails, where to mention the
  global welcome calls and Discord, and that the English note only
  matters for an email in another language.
- Shorter country and intent hints.
- "Show plain-text version" / "Show email", which can't be read as a text
  message.
- Country hint: the list is chapters PauseAI Global connects signups with,
  not every country with a chapter; say the US isn't listed.
- Guide: what Copy text copies, pick Volunteer / Lead for a chapter whose
  own email is for volunteers, and name the two groups by their Intent.
- "Show text only" / "Show formatted email", distinct from Plain note.
- Plainer Spanish summaries; no unsupported "yet"; a copy failure no
  longer names a cause; the developer note says the page uses the same
  renderer as the endpoint rather than calling it.
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…s which language

The hint described the email rather than the control, only explained
Spanish, and said "signups" get Spanish when only Volunteer / Lead do.
The locked versions match: "whatever languages they speak" for the sign-up
form's question, and a chapter's own email "is always in" its language.
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RisingOrange merged commit a942b86 into PauseAI:main Sep 22, 2026
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