Can I create a link to subscribe to a category?

[bartv (Bart)]

Hi,

We’re planning a ‘daily challenge’ activity on our forum. Every day we’ll post a new topic with instructions for that day’s activity and we’d like to encourage participants to subscribe to ‘Watch First Post’ so they’ll get a daily reminder.

Instead of explaining to them how to subscribe to a category (which, granted, has the effect of educating them on how to use the forum), I’d like to give them a link to subscribe directly. Is that possible?

[david (David Taylor)]

There are a few topics about this. For example:

Change notification level with a link

Hello guys, we already have an integration for blog comments we have the ability to draft links to send templated messages to groups or indviduals Couldn’t we create a route and a dialog to let people switch their notification level to a suggested value for a given group, tag or category? Like: https://meta.discourse.org/change-notification?level=watching&category=blog Use Case Button on blog: Click here to subscribe to new topics and its comments. User clicks on link to change the notific…

I think the best you could do here without a plugin/theme-component is a link to /my/preferences/categories.

[bartv (Bart)]

Thanks very much David!