Hello, I just found out that group inboxes are tracked by default and not watched. I thought messages are treated like personal messages and thus, watched by default. Is there a setting to change the default notification settings for group inboxes? How can I make everyone watching its groups that already got an account? Thank you! Robert

Maybe I have found something: spec/services/post_alerter_spec.rb aaf947356 PostAlerter.post_created(post) expect(user.notifications.where(notification_type: Notification.types[:watching_first_post]).count).to eq(1) end it "notifies the user who is following the first post group" do GroupUser.create(group_id: group.id, user_id: user.id) GroupUser.create(group_id: group.id, user_id: post.user.id) topic.topic_allowed_groups.create(group_id: group.id) level = GroupUser.notification_levels[:watching_first_post] GroupUser.where(user_id: user.id, group_id: group.id).update_all(notification_level: level) PostAlerter.post_created(post) expect(user.notifications.where(notification_type: Notification.types[:watching_first_post]).count).to eq(1) end end end So I could try this one in the rails console to correct already the setting for existing users? Of course, I would need to loop over all relevant groups. group = Group.find_by_name(group_name) GroupUser.where(group_id: group.id).update_all(notification_level: GroupUser.notification_levels[:level])

There is a per user setting which anyone can change at the top right: [image] ATM there is no way to set a default per group.

There is still no way to default watch a group. I raised this here: [image] Group administration functions should be better surfaced Feature I am managing a group of users on a small Discourse forum and am hitting some usability issues, that make working with groups awkward. There are a bunch but I would like to address I can not see on the user card what groups the user is a member of: [image] Mark is a member of the “parents” group but I can not see it. The biggest killer problem I have is that I can not force all the members of my group to watch a category Proposal Add a “visible on card” option for groups that forces th… Current thinking is that we are open to adding an automatic, optional “welcome to the group” type PM so at least you can teach people about this when you add them to the group. I think allowing mods to set defaults makes sense, but also agree that “welcome to the group” is a better first step.

I think this is now possible. :partying_face: You can set this on group creation from the New Group page: [image] Or update it from the /manage/interaction tab, where you can apply it historically or just to new people: [image]

Have everyone watching the group inbox

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JammyDodger October 27, 2022, 10:29am 7

I think this is now possible.

You can set this on group creation from the New Group page:

Or update it from the /manage/interaction tab, where you can apply it historically or just to new people:

Topic		Replies	Views
Watching group PMs by default Feature	24	6084	May 26, 2017
Group notification settings UX	8	1846	September 9, 2020
Suggestion: watched category auto-set when added to group Feature	5	1334	February 8, 2024
Spec: set group default category notification settings Feature rfc	16	4818	March 7, 2022
Make members of a group watch a category by default Feature completed	87	26778	April 21, 2022

Have everyone watching the group inbox

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