# Default notifications for new users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-notifications-for-new-users/193551
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 11, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-notifications-for-new-users/193551 "2021-06-11T16:01:36Z")
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### Author: ![cocococosti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cocococosti/32/231474_2.png) [@cocococosti](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cocococosti)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-notifications-for-new-users/193551/2 "2021-06-11T16:31:02Z")

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If it is for a single user, you can go the user’s preferences directly and edit the notifications for them:

 ![Screen Shot 2021-06-11 at 12.21.57](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/0/20581a679742c2dd011359f2e2e242eaaa647f38.png)

If you need this for a specific group of users, you could create a Group (read more here: [Configuring group access, membership, and visibility](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-custom-group-access-and-visibility/138296)) with default notifications in certain category or tags. For example if I want the members of the group “Test” to always receive notifications for Topics in the “Tests” category:

 ![Screen Shot 2021-06-11 at 12.12.57](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/1/919fd91f5ee6e39b31f61937260294a5bd675f8c.png)

And then send an invitation (read more about it here: [Configuring how users can create and send invites for others to join your community](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-send-configure-and-accept-discourse-invitation-emails/124096)) to those users, adding them to the group, like so:

 ![Screen Shot 2021-06-11 at 12.11.36](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/2/82d86b5258794694aeccceaac75987891bcf1dc9.png)

Once the users are part of the group, the notifications settings will be updated in their Preferences page to include the group’s notification defaults: [Groups can set category and tag notification levels](https://meta.discourse.org/t/groups-can-set-category-and-tag-notification-levels/160069)

You could also set the `default categories watching first post`, `default categories tracking`and `default categories watching`site settings. But these would apply to all users not just a specific group.

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