Apply category notification preferences to existing users

[icaria36]

I have created a new category. Then I have set its notifications to Muted by default via “default categories muted” at /admin/site_settings/category/user_preferences.

These settings will be inherited by new users, but… I see that existing users will receive notifications until they manually change their preferences. I fear many of these users will not even know they can do that, they will only feel overwhelmed about the new incoming traffic and they will unsubscribe from notifications altogether.

Is there a way to change this setting for all existing users at once. I see that I could do it one by one manually…

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Bulk suspend users based on criteria is a hint. There may be other topics with the details for watching a category.

[dax (Daniela)]

There is a guide to read for that:

(Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically

Following the release of Discourse v2.4.0.beta7 (or if you have this commit), admins now have the option to set the category tracking levels of all existing users when setting the default category tracking levels in their site settings: Add a category to one of the following site settings, then select the green checkbox button. [10%20PM] A modal window will pop up with the following options: [10%20PM]

The old way using the console

Discourse allows you to specify default…

[icaria36]

Thank you! FIXED (and 20 chars)