How can I beef up Discourse notifications?

[BaronGrivet]

Thank you @sam. I found the information I was after here:

How do I set category tracking level defaults historically

It is. If you want to set the tracking level for a category for all members, that is what the first post in this topic details how to do. except you will want to not use WHERE cu.user_id IS NULL but this instead WHERE cu.user_id IS NOT NULL and instead of “4” (watching_first_post) use “1” (regular)