I’m an admin on an internal Discourse site, and I have an important post I want to notify all users about. Is there any way to get Discourse to send a notification email to all users, or a group of users? The “Invite” button only lets you send a notification to one person at a time.

Lots of existing topics on this here, a quick search should bring them up. In short, you have 3 options I can think of off the top of my head (I’d recommend #3): Mention all your users by username in the post. Not ideal, looks messy, and may require site setting changes based on the number of users you have. Mention @trust_level_0 which will notify users TL0 and above (all users). May require a site setting change to increase max user notified per group mention. Create a category which all users watch the first post of. You can use (Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically to change the user preference for all users to watch the first post of your new category.

Hmm. The @trust_level_0 option is actually simpler in my case. None seems like a really good approach though… Staff should be able to notify all but it seems like a bad idea to allow anyone to notify all.

Pinning makes sense for urgent issues such as security or site maintenance notices. In my case I want to be a little more subtle. Also the notification aspect is important; I have a lot of infrequent visitors (< once a month) and I want to notify them.

[image] jmsachs: Staff should be able to notify all but it seems like a bad idea to allow anyone to notify all. By default no one can mention @trust_level_0. You can restrict the TL0 so that only staff can mention it when you enable mentions.

Best way for staff to send notifications about posts

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 22, 2018, 9:23pm 3

And you could pin it globally so that anyone who visited the site would see it.

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