# Change notification level with a link

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-notification-level-with-a-link/57784>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** notifications\
**Created:** [February 22, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-notification-level-with-a-link/57784 "2017-02-22T12:59:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![LeoMcA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/leomca/32/87233_2.png) [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-notification-level-with-a-link/57784/3 "2017-04-28T23:47:12Z")

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I see two ways of doing this:

## Approach 1

As a route under topics, categories, tags and groups.

So if I wanted to create a link to watch a category:

`/c/feature/notify/watch`

Or track a topic:

`/t/change-notification-level-with-a-link/57784/notify/track`

Or set a tag to normal:

`/tags/pr-welcome/notify/normal`

Or mute a group inbox:

`/my/messages/group/admins/notify/mute`

## Approach 2

Like proposed in the original topic, one route to rule them all.

So if I wanted to watch a category, topic, tag and group inbox all at the same time:

`/notify/watch?category=feature&topic=57784&tag=pr-welcome&group=admins`

Or if I wanted to track multiple categories at the same time:

`/notify/track?category[]=feature&category[]=dev&category[]=ux`

Or if I wanted to mute a subcategory:

`/notify/mute?category=plugin:broken-plugin`

## Common to both

Once the user visits the link, they’re asked to confirm they want to change the notification level on the categories/topics/tags/inboxes.

If they’re not logged in they’re prompted to do so, or sign up.

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The second approach has its advantages in that you can change the notification level on multiple categories/topics/tags/inboxes at the same time, but I prefer the first approach as it’s more elegant and intuitive.

What are the [@team](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/team)’s thoughts on this?

This is something we want within Mozilla, and we’re willing to invest development resources (i.e. me) to make it happen.

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