We’re looking at using Discourse to increase communications between staff of a non-announcement nature, i.e. discussions :). Given the attitudes of our staff, it is likely that the primary mechanism for interacting with Discourse will be via email. In testing, one of the challenges I’m trying to fi…

[image] Philip_Colmer: Does that setting only apply to accounts that get created after the setting is configured? Correct. It does not override existing user’s settings. See (Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically for how to apply this retroactively.

I can’t speak to the category watching question as I haven’t used it, but one thing to note is that Discourse tries to be intelligent about only sending email to users when they’re not currently active on the platform. If Discourse registers them as being currently online I believe the default is to…

[image] Philip_Colmer: Does that setting only apply to accounts that get created after the setting is configured? Right. There are a couple plugins that will force a group to watch a particular category, but the user/category pairings are hard-coded, so you’d need to modify the plugin for you…

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) February 16, 2018, 4:54pm 3

Correct. It does not override existing user’s settings. See (Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically for how to apply this retroactively.

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