Discourse deleted 1500 inactive users who haven't been seen for two years after update

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I think a good way to notify site owners of new functionality would simply be to have the system account send a private message with details to the admin and maybe also post it to a changelog topic in the Staff category as part of the upgrade process. Just a short message explaining that “your forum is now upgraded to version x, these settings are new, check Discourse 2.3.0.beta6 Release Notes for more details.”

There’s no need to build a bunch of new ux for it when there’s already an excellent mechanism for linking directly to a site setting from a post like this https://discourse/admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=clean%20up%20inactive

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A feature that Moodle has that I was always impressed with was that in upgrade it would redirect the admin to all of the new system settings.

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You can lead the horse to water… and all the above already happens. You can see how effective it is. cough

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I’m gonna go ahead and re-close this, because I feel the actual discussion inevitably trends toward “I disagree with this change” rather than suggestions. I do agree that we should have highlighted it better in the release notes and that is done, so…

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