"First post only" filter to take into account edits/merge into category after the fact?

[downey (Michael Downey)]

@Hooksmith

close posts that are in the wrong category and linking the user to the one that they should post in instead, rather than editing it into the category.

That’s really unfortunate. There is a recent change, however:

Publication of Timed Topics don't trigger new topic notifications

First of all, thank you for report the issue. I think I fixed that issue in this commit: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/20e7fb1c958790fa2dafc80bf6fe76b0556a2b92 Basically, I improved a little bit the logic around notification If the user has already seen the post, the type of notification should be edited. The case for that is when for example OP will add category or tag which is watched by another user. However, when the user hasn’t yet seen the post, the type of notification…

You may want to test it out again…