Notify users participating in a topic

Contribute Feature

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The discussion revolves around the feature to notify users participating in a topic. designbygio initially requested the feature, similar to Slack’s @here or @channel. jomaxro moved the topic to the #feature category.

erlend_sh suggested @topic as the Discourse equivalent, which could be useful for moderators and admins, but not for lower trust levels. sam proposed two caveats: default disabled for the entire forum and ability to enable it per category.

codinghorror suggested using groups and group mentions as a safer alternative. However, erlend_sh argued that @topic could be safe if available to higher trust levels.

The discussion continued with codinghorror questioning the verb “here” and its derivation from chat presence. erlend_sh reiterated @topic as a better suggestion.

sam questioned why watching a topic is not enough, and codinghorror explained that the difference lies in topics with a large number of participants.

Finally, icaria36 mentioned that this feature was implemented a couple of months ago, allowing users to mention @here to notify participants, with configurable site settings for admins.

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Is there a way to notify all users who reply to a specific topic?

Something similar to the Slack’s @here or @channel

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No there is not. I’ve moved this to Contribute > Feature.

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The Discourse equivalent should probably be @topic. Could be very useful for mods and admins, but I wouldn’t want it on by default for any lower trust level.

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I think I would like this feature with 2 caveats.

  1. Default disabled for entire forum
  2. Ability to enable it per category

I can see it being very useful for internal discussions where people are not default watching.

The tricky thing though is that @here could mean

  1. People tracking topic or above + people who participated
  2. People who participated

And then there is the question of mutes which clearly should be bypassed.

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Yeah I would wait on this feature, because there is already a much safer way to accomplish virtually the same goal – create a group and enable group mentions.

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This should be safe assuming it’s only available to higher trust levels by default, like TL3.

I think there’s a legitimate use case for @here every time we are wrapping up a feature topic that got completed. UserVoice does the same thing, even with email send outs, when a feature story has concluded.

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The verb is quite wrong and derived from chat presence – are those people really “here”? We’d need to start with better words.

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Well my original suggestion was @topic, which I feel makes a lot of sense. IMO that is what the command should be, and we could hardcode @here to suggest @topic so that the chatty folks can catch on quick.

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One slight issue I have here is that if you really cared you would watch the topic, so this indicates that we need some sort of mode where you do not care but we force the caring upon you

In other words, why is watching not good enough?

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I see what you mean, there is slim difference indeed between typing @topic and typing 4-5 different individual @name mentions.. on a topic with 6 people, including yourself, it wouldn’t be crazy or particularly difficult to manually name mention everyone who participated in the topic. And that’s totally allowed.

Where it gets weird is when the topic has 20, 50, 100 people participating. Then we’d need to pop a REAL BIG warning about notifications, like we do for groups – or even disallow it entirely as too noisy. And possibly only staff could do a @topic mention, or very highly trusted users, similar to the caution we have by not allowing enormous @groupname notifications by default, unless the group owner enables it.

As long as it is off by default and has to be explicitly enabled by the site owners I don’t see much risk. I am a bit unclear where / how that would be enabled though. Per category doesn’t seem totally right?

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단순히 문서화를 위해 말씀드리면, 이 기능 요청은 몇 달 전에 이미 구현되었습니다 – 2.8.0.beta9: Tag Descriptions, Recent Searches, Sticky Avatars, and more 참고

@here 지원

이제 사용자는 @here를 언급하여 해당 주제에 답글을 남긴 10명의 사용자에게 알림을 보낼 수 있습니다. 관리자는 max_here_mentioned 및 min_trust_level_for_here_mention 사이트 설정을 통해 @here 언급 사용 권한 및 언급될 사용자 수를 관리할 수 있습니다.

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