Thanks Marcus! This helps me a lot, BUT if the feature were added I would strongly suggest that it also be an option for adding users in bulk from CSV…since that is what I really need.
For now with your hammer above, and a few different generic bulk import scripts I’m hoping we can add our website users (customers) to Discourse, have them already “logged-in” and watching the categories that pertain to their usage of our software, in order to kickstart our activity just as you describe above. (I’ll add we use SSO with our DNN website which adds complexity).
The ability to do this as an admin though would be ideal, hopefully the idea gets some traction.