[2.7.11] tags notifications dont work anymore for regular profil

[tomitomas (Thomas)]

Hi there ,

I didn’ t find any post about it, sorry if I missed it and if it’s already handled.

Sorry, as a new user, I have to split my message into several one to send all details

on v2.7.11, (as a regular user - ie non admin) it seems that we are not able to receive notifications about a tag watched (same for the other options too)

If i look at on a tag page : I made a suscription “watched” → the small bell is set on that tag page ==> so I should be notified of all new posts and topics when that tag is used, but I don’t have any notification when a new topic is created

is that bug already seen / taken into account ?

please note : it seems that “admin” profil doesn’t have that issue.

[tomitomas (Thomas)]

2nd part :

if I take a look to my preference setting page , everything is empty …

[tomitomas (Thomas)]

3rd part :

and if I try to update the fields from the settings page, after saving the changes, and refresh the browser, informations are gone and not saved …

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

It doesn’t seem likely that this is a big in core, have you tried safe mode?

[tomitomas (Thomas)]

Thanks for the answer @pfaffman !

I’ll take a look.

Is the safe-mode only applied for myself ? Or will that make any disable thing at the site level, so for other users too ?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

If you click the link to save mode on my post it explains how it works.

[tomitomas (Thomas)]

yep, that’s what I did.
but if I ask the question, it’s because that wasn’t clear for me

any user can use

says that anybody can use it, but doesn’t say if it’s applied only for the current user
I think it is, otherwise it might be a security issue. but i prefer to ask confirmation

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Any user can use it by changing the url as described. It affects only the browser window where you do it.

[tomitomas (Thomas)]

I just gave a try in safe-mode but same result.

[tomitomas (Thomas)]

in fact, it seems working with only few tag, but not other.
Here I select few of them, after refresh only 2 are really saved

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

I’ve noticed something similar, where tag notifications are not working at all. I only discovered it when wondering why nobody was replying to a post and then digging around in the email logs.

They are not appearing in the users’ Notifications–>Tags at all, and are not being applied. This is also the case with safe-mode on.

When interrogating the database, they seem to be correct.

I’ve had to do an ugly workaround with @mentions instead.

[tomitomas (Thomas)]

Hi there !

Hope everyone have a great xmas holidays !

I wish Santa may have seen this post and replied some nice answer but he may have been a bit busy those last days.

Any other people from @team could help on this ?

Thanks !

[Falco]

@tomitomas

and if I try to update the fields from the settings page, after saving the changes, and refresh the browser, informations are gone and not saved …

Can you reproduce this here on Meta? If not it means it’s already fixed in our default release channel, so you can update to that or wait until it’s dispatched to the slower release channel you are using.

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

This is still a real problem. I’d forgotten about this thread when I posted this:

Tag watching not working for non-staff when tag is part of a Tag Group

When I include a tag in a tag group, it disappears from the /my/preferences/tags page for non-staff users. In addition, the watching preference is not applied despite it looking fine in the database. This is regardless of what is chosen in the permissions settings for the Tag Group: [image] If I delete the Tag Group, the tag watching starts working normally for those tags.

[tomitomas (Thomas)]

Looks like we finally got a real answer here :

Tag watching not working for non-staff when tag is part of a Tag Group

This problem should be fixed now actually! https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/12f041de5d5ff147e82ab3d16132f0f5ad06d389 Tags in tag groups that have permissions set to everyone were not able to be saved correctly. A user on their preferences page would mark the tags that they wanted to save, but the watched_tags in the response would be empty. This did not apply to admins, just regular users. Even though the watched tags were being saved in the db, the user serializer response…

So version 2.8.0 might fix the issue => to be checked and confirmed