# Have everyone watching the group inbox

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-everyone-watching-the-group-inbox/53252>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [2016年十一月22日 10:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-everyone-watching-the-group-inbox/53252 "2016-11-22T10:54:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2019年四月1日 00:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-everyone-watching-the-group-inbox/53252/5 "2019-04-01T00:40:22Z")

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There is still no way to default watch a group.

I raised this here:

> [@Group administration functions should be better surfaced](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-administration-functions-should-be-better-surfaced/112303):
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> I am managing a group of users on a small Discourse forum and am hitting some usability issues, that make working with groups awkward. There are a bunch but I would like to address I can not see on the user card what groups the user is a member of: Mark is a member of the “parents” group but I can not see it. The biggest killer problem I have is that I can not force all the members of my group to watch a category Proposal Add a “visible on card” option for groups that forces th…

Current thinking is that we are open to adding an automatic, optional “welcome to the group” type PM so at least you can teach people about this when you add them to the group.

I think allowing mods to set defaults makes sense, but also agree that “welcome to the group” is a better first step.

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