Turn off all other notifications except group notifications

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

@Peter_Backgren

Yet, users complain, almost not at all though (the scare is of course they just silently go away considering this site to be spamming them). This is why I could see a need for two different levels of notifications. One that adds any new posts as a notification. One that only adds notifications from areas that you have visited. If you would like to force people to acknowledge some new category you could always do some sort of “@ all” in it’s header to wake people up.

This doesn’t really make sense, as out of the box in Discourse you are only notified when someone is speaking directly to you:

• someone replied to your post
• someone mentioned @yourname
• someone replied to your topic you created

Now if defaults have been changed, anything is possible.. but out of the box, trust me, Discourse will only notify you when someone is very clearly and explicitly talking directly to YOU.