Is there a way for staged users to watch a category? I have people who are not tech savvy. Asking them to signup for a forum would be a little too much, but they do want to get regular updates via email. Is there a way to for me to add their email addresses to Discourse and set them to watch a cate…

[image] codinghorror: the idea of account level preferences being associated with a user that … has no account … is kind of a non starter. … except that it does actually work. I have used it in the past, though not in recent months. You can create a staged user by messaging their email addres…

[image] Apply "mailing list mode" per category feature I have multiple users who want to treat some categories within Discourse as “mailing lists” meaning they want emails for ALL activity within these categories. But they only want emails outside these categories under ce…

Hi @hawm . Thanks for the link! What’s different about my question is that I’m looking for a way to notify staged users, not people who have registered and created their own account.

No, this isn’t possible. Staged means “does not have an account, interacted only via email” so the idea of account level preferences being associated with a user that … has no account … is kind of a non starter.

If it works, it is accidental and more akin to a hack. It could stop “working” at any time.

[image] tobiaseigen: Another thing I have done recently on my personal forum that seems to work without issues is to invite the user as staged user, then impersonate them via the link at the bottom of the user’s admin settings. In short order the user becomes active even though they have never l…

[image] codinghorror: If it works, it is accidental and more akin to a hack. It could stop “working” at any time. Got it. My suggestion would be to close this loophole if it’s unintended and unsupported behavior. E.g. look to see if the user is staged and if so prevent editing prefs or admin …

Is there a way for staged users to watch a category?

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hawm (Hawm) September 10, 2019, 2:43am 2

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