Continuing the discussion from Default email settings for a new user : [image] Default email settings for a new user https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bef80633b1b58189a732a3959d3a59da44aa55e9 So, now that this feature is in place, I want to make sure new users are watching all the…

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 :wink:

Confirming - it's OK to set default watch for categories a user can't see

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 23, 2015, 3:01am 2

Good question! I doubt anything bad will happen but a good idea for @zogstrip to check.

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Make members of a group watch a category by default

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Confirming - it's OK to set default watch for categories a user can't see

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