La modification en masse des catégories de sujets ne devrait pas déclencher des milliers de notifications par e-mail

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Also @JammyDodger is this a complete dupe of:

UI Bulk operations & Notifications

Happy new year everyone ! I had an issue a couple of days ago - I was going to rearrange the Categories in my recently migrated Forums, and I was using the Bulk operations accessible from the UI (select a bunch of topics, then press the red wrench button). I got this very useful menu: [image] So I set the category for a ton of topics (a few hundreds, one hundred at a time), and behold, my users started getting seriously spammed with notification emails. Luckily I hit a provid…

Should we merge?

Also:

Add a site setting to disable notifications on category changes

Continuing the discussion from Any way to prevent notifications for post merges, moves?: I keep running into this problem: I select a few old topics I change their category to a more general one The general category is set to Watching First Post by default Every user in my forum gets a new notification for an old topic Last time this happened I got a huge email spike (and a sizeable bill from Mailgun) [image] I’ve since learned I can follow this manual process to avoid this, but…

Provide option to disable notifications when post moved, renamed, tagged

I have started getting a bunch of notifications about older topics I’ve been involved in on meta because @riking is graciously improving their titles, moving them to new categories, adding/removing tags etc. I really appreciate him doing this and do think it’s important for moderators to feel free to make improvements like this. It’s all part of the gardening involved in running great forums. But I don’t see why I should be notified. The same is true on my own discourse sites of course. The fea…

(I love related topics)