Our community has the same meetup every month on zoom. We’d like a surface in the forum where they know that the info for the next event is always there with the link to join. There would be nothing else in this topic and the past event’s link would be replaced with the new one. I thought of locking the thread, pinning it and always just editing the first post. Do people get notified of changes like that? Or should we post a reply like “new event details for March” then delete that then post “new event details for April” so they do get notified? I’m also aware that the pinning automatically gets unpinned, so not sure how to approach this.
For now I’ve created a banner topic, that I’ll unpin until the day of the next event, and edit it with the new infos then.
I would just create a new topic each month named “Join MONTH Meeting!!!” with the link in it and put it in a category where the people who you think care about this are watching the category (or watching first post).
That’s great news! Then people don’t have to look at the thing after they know that the meeting is going to happen and the zoom link exists. But if you want it to persist so that people just program their own brains to automatically ignore all of your pinned notices, you can change the settings as suggested.
No, I like the unpinning. I was to ask the technical side of it. What if I make a banner topic, they X it. After the event I unlist the topic temporarilty. But then one month later I reenable or pin or banner it again. They may not be following the category but this very topic hence I would not necessarily want to drop it and recreate it under a new ID next month.
Regarding notification, any (but the badge will do), after I edit the first post? I guess that is not grounds for a notification.
I’m pretty sure that if you re-pin it, it’ll get pinned for them again, and have to be dismissed again, but that’s one more reason that creating a new topic each month makes more sense. It’s at least as easy to create a topic as it is to edit one, and if you edit it, then how will someone know (without paying careful attention) that it’s been edited? Editing it and expecting people to notice, even if you pin it again, seems like asking for trouble. Creating a new topic each month seems like it solves all of your concerns.
Are you using Discourse Calendar (and Event)? If so, you can create an event topic with a recurring event and also a notification to people who have indicated they are coming or interested.
The idea of automatically repinning a recurring event topic when it comes up again is interesting. You could use the “Pin Topic” automation for this.