I’m making a master bugfix list topic in my community that grabs content from other topics via API/webhooks, but I’m having trouble alerting users who are watching the topic. My topic is registering each iteration as an edit (good). I’ve tried: Setting them to watching Not on the page when it updates Confirming my API calls don’t have bypass_bump=true Making the topic a wiki What else can i try?

Maybe it’s this bug? [image] Sporadic Wiki Post notifications Bug I’ve been trying to get some repro steps, but it did get a little confusing. slightly_smiling_face It seems it doesn’t like consecutives, but I’ll post my notes and let someone else see if they’re useful. +1 Expected behaviour: That an edit notification will be received by the author, and any user Watching the wiki topic, for any significant edit (pencil change). Actual behaviour: A user can consecutively edit a wiki multiple times without triggering a notification to the author or Watchin…

Watching the topic and first post a wiki used to work :eyes: (I rely on that in some forums.) [image] Get notifications from a wiki edit Support You should get edit notifications if you are watching the topic, and the wiki is the OP I guess a workaround could be to fetch the edit with data explorer and use the automation to post into a topic the users can watch. Edit: Seems watching and wiki in OP still works.

[image] Moin: Seems watching and wiki in OP still works. That’s so weird. I’m trying on two different test users and neither are being notified. I thought I had a breakthrough shifting the API calls from system to my account, but no luck. My users are being notified of the new topic, but not that my master topic is has been updated.

Assuming I can’t figure it out, the jank workaround that I have is to create public groups that people can join if they want updates on the bug fix lists, then tag that group with every edit. TBD if editing a topic where someone is tagged re-notifies them? This sounds like Monday problem to solve, though :sweat_smile:

How fast are you testing? Do you wait for Editing grace period before trying the edit?

I hadn’t thought about that (our grace period is 10min). I’ll do some further testing today! [image] pfaffman: Did you try making it a wiki? Yes, which seems to be the way to have it trigger. TBD on the grace period test.

I was able to trigger it with my first edit, but haven’t been able to since, even when I wait the grace period (10 minutes) before checking with my test users.

That sounds right unfortunately. Thanks @Moin!

How to notify when posts edits via API?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 12, 2025, 10:42pm 5

Did you try making it a wiki?

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How to notify when posts edits via API?

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