# How can I beef up Discourse notifications?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-beef-up-discourse-notifications/124964
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-beef-up-discourse-notifications/124964 "2019-08-06T02:16:18Z")
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### Author: ![BaronGrivet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/barongrivet/32/152142_2.png) [@BaronGrivet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BaronGrivet)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-beef-up-discourse-notifications/124964/8 "2019-08-12T23:51:26Z")

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

> [@(Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-set-category-tracking-level-defaults-historically/53165/11):
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> 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)

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