Configuring Default Notification Settings for Users

[SaraDev (Sara Devlaeminck)]

@jlc

In the screenshot that you shared, all of the notification levels start out with an empty list of tracked categories or tags. Does this mean that by default, new users enter into a Discourse forum without any notifications for any categories or tags?
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if users do have some default tracked categories or tags, then I want to understand how that functionality works and how it intersects with these settings.

By default, the default categories... and default tags... settings are empty, so users who create an account on a brand new Discourse site would have all categories and tags set to the Normal level of notifications.

Unless categories or tags are explicitly set with different notification level using the default categories... or default tags... settings, or unless a user changes their Notification settings manually, all categories and tags on a site will default to the Normal level of notifications.

Ex:

@SaraDev

Normal: Users will be notified if someone mentions their @username or replies to them.