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 users of the edit. It appears that it occurred in topics that used the tagging of a group and that group would be notified (even if the tag was not a new one). Create a post with multiple tags of groups of members Let it propagate and send notifications. Wait whatever number of minutes is needed for it to send out to any current watch lists/etc. Come back to the post and edit it. Add something useless, like the word unicorn and note that the right hand side of the edit window alerts that you will notify the groups in the post despite not having added or edited anything to do with those tags. Save Check the logs and note that all members in those groups are now notified of the edit (though the notifications appear as a New Topic notification.

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]

[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 click on your avatar up right? Or is it a small blue dot next to the topic title in the topic list?

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 will display while editing, but no notification is sent after the ninja edit is made If you make an edit outside of the edit grace period, the warning will display while editing, but no new notification is sent out to the group Can you help with any additional reproduction steps? As an aside I could see it being helpful to have a toggle that controls whether a mention triggers a notification at the post level. It would provide more control in edit scenarios, and also when you just want to include a magic usercard/profile link in the post for other users to make use of.

[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 and report back if I’m successful.

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 people who were in the group to begin with (and did receive the original mention notification) do not receive an additional notification from the edit. Steps to reproduce (requires two users) Create a new group Create a new post or topic that mentions that group Create a new user Add that user to the group Edit the post – At this point the new user will receive a notification. Edit the post again – The new user does not receive additional notifications for additional edits. Not sure what the correct behavior should be here.. I guess I would lean towards not sending the mention notifications on edits at all, but I’m not sure how tricky this is with the implementation. Also, one other note – the “You’re about to notify X people in the group” message shows up when you make an edit regardless of whether or not anyone will actually be notified. Is it possible to link this warning message to the number of people who have not been notified previously about this post (in order to calculate an accurate count of the number of people who will be notified).

Editing posts cause notification

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) May 22, 2021, 7:17pm 27

Yes this is already the case.

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