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 upd…

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’r…

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 c…

[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…

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,…

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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Moin December 12, 2025, 10:48pm 6

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

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How to notify when posts edits via API?

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