Hello, I have been updated some featured/pinned topics and they seem to be sending out updates every time that I update them. Is there a way to disable this? “Watch first Post” shouldn’t trigger if the post is just slightly edited as far as I can tell? Thanks!

[image] codinghorror: What do you mean by “I have been updated”? What exactly did you do, step by step? Describe it in detail? Your question is unanswerable until you provide this information. Sorry fort he lack of clarity. For some reason, editing a post that I created would notify other us…

Interesting so this is specific to group mentions? Perhaps you can try to repro this when you have time @jomaxro

It appears to be on my end at least.

I have not been able to repro this. I tested it on try, with 3 users. In one post I mentioned all of them individually, in the other I mentioned a group all 3 were in. They all received the initial mention notification, they did not receive further notifications on edit. [image] [image] [image] …

[image] DiscoWebmaster: are now notified of the edit (though the notifications appear as a New Topic notification I’m unsure about the type of notification here. Are you referring to a notification that appears on your user profile, i.e., as an extra entry in the list that appears when you cl…

I am observing this behavior on one of our sites. When editing a post that mentions a group, I get the following warning: [image] And can also confirm that the people in that group do receive a new notification when the edit is saved.

Hmm @Grayden_Shand I am assuming the post had already mentioned the group prior to being edited? I know if you add a new mention to a post through an edit, that user/group will be notified. I tested two scenarios: If you make a “ninja edit” to a post that already mentioned a group, the warning wi…

[image] tshenry: I am assuming the post had already mentioned the group prior to being edited? Yes, the group mention was already in the post before being edited. Also, the user making the edit was a different user than the one who owned the topic. I will try to repro on my dev setup today a…

Figured it out… The notification is being sent to users who joined the group after the post was originally created. So, for the users who are receiving the notification, it is the first time that THEY received the mention notification, but not the first time that ANYONE got the notification. But …

Editing posts cause notification

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) April 23, 2021, 3:32pm 24

Wouldn’t it be simpler to create a new post and notify people that way? I am a bit scared of building a giant tower of complexity here to support what is a fairly narrow edge case.

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