So, now that this feature is in place, I want to make sure new users are watching all the right categories. The concern is that they won’t all have permissions to all categories.
I want to confirm my assumption, that it’s OK to set a forum’s defaults to include all the important categories, and that if a user can’t see the category, the fact they Watch it by default won’t hurt anything (and won’t generate emails to them from the categories.)
Just checked and if you put a category that has some permission as a default, new users who doesn’t match these permissions won’t have that category in their list
Great… I’ll be using this new feature to add all categories as Watched… It’s a far better user experience then Mailing list mode, and the unwatch this topic links in the emails are just fantastic.
I assume that people are likely to look at their profile & unwatch topics they don’t have permission to see. They may also wonder why they don’t have that permission. For that reason I have this request to make being added to a group auto-watch categories.
Sure, makes sense. I feel that these defaults are great, and if we can get the act of adding someone to a group makes them auto-watch xyz categories, we have a feature-rich solution.
Once the defaults are set, the users can fend for themselves.