The discussion revolves around filtering email digests by category in Discourse. gdpelican requests a way to set default notification levels for categories, such as suppressing chat notifications in email digests, without requiring individual user setup. codinghorror clarifies that notification settings are already tied to categories, but gdpelican seeks a way for admins to enforce default settings for all future users. cpradio confirms this is possible via the Admin area by setting default category notification levels, allowing admins to preconfigure preferences for new users.
I recently got a feature request for Babble to suppress chat notifications in the email digest. It’s a feature I don’t really want to develop in the plugin (Babble touches enough parts of the application already, so getting into email land is just another thing that can break), but was wondering if we might be able to put in a site setting to white-or-blacklist certain categories from appearing, which would enable folks to simply blacklist the ‘Chat’ category.
Seems like there’d also be a use case where folks might not be interested in a ‘Random’ category in their email, or maybe some site owner wants to send out just ‘Announcements’ or something.
Sorry, I was unclear. I meant, as an admin, is there a way for me to make it so that all future users will receive a certain notification level for a category, without further work on their part?
IE, I want people who sign up to be ‘tracking’ the ‘Announcements’ category, but the ‘Chat’ category is muted by default. (Then they could individually change those settings manually if they cared.)