I’m interested in making watching categories a more prominent option for users. I realize I can style the notification button on a category, but it would remain just a small, somewhat obscure icon. I haven’t been able to figure out how to make a more obvious target. Is it possible to add a not…

[imagen] alehandrof: you can sign up to be notified of future events and discussions on this topic: LINK I’d find this useful too. The email notifications have links to an action page (for want of a better word) - unsubscribe from the topic etc. Something like that but for category watching w…

[imagen] alehandrof: you can sign up to be notified of future events and discussions on this topic: LINK The problem I see with that is that it would probably turn into a CSRF attack vector (someone could post a link somewhere that executes some action in discourse, and anyone who clicked wou…

[imagen] lucasbasquerotto: anyone who clicked would have that action applied to their account I can see the potential problem here. Would a “splash screen” (again I don’t know the right word) help? Like when you click on the email notification link it doesn’t automatically do anything - it ge…

That’s a possible solution, like what happens for unsubscribing from emails.

[imagen] alehandrof: Is it possible to add a notification button for each category on the /categories page? That would also serve as an overview of what the user is tracking. That could be good. I bet lots of people never even look at a category page (looking only at categories/latest, and in…

I’d be perfectly happy with a link that takes users to the forum where a dialog asks something like this : Do you want to watch the first post for CATEGORY? You will be notified of new topics in this category but not replies to the topics. Yes / No [buttons] Edit: and it looks like the API alr…

[imagen] alehandrof: Is it possible to add a notification button for each category on the /categories page? That would also serve as an overview of what the user is tracking. Looking at this again… “Preferences - categories” has this overview, but lets you add categories to the five possible …

It’s two years later and I’m still interested in everything I mentioned in my OP. I haven’t seen any movement on any of those features. Have I missed anything – perhaps a plugin or theme component?

A few weeks after you started this topic the Categories Tracking Toggle theme-component was published. But you participated there, so it is nothing new.

I have recently created a TC which allows Staff to create a “Watch This Category” button, in any post. I’m using this in my Discourses to make Watching more discoverable for the less-techy users. [imagen] Discourse Watch Category Button Theme component discour…

Hacer que una categoría de visualización sea más prominente para los usuarios

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pacharanero (Marcus Baw) 30 Enero, 2026 13:36 11

Recientemente he creado una TC que permite al personal crear un botón de “Ver esta categoría” en cualquier publicación. Lo estoy utilizando en mis Discourses para hacer que la función de seguir (Watch) sea más fácil de encontrar para los usuarios menos familiarizados con la tecnología.

Tema		Respuestas	Vistas
Notification setting button with context UX	5	997	30 Enero 2026
Discourse Watch Category Button Theme component	0	102	29 Enero 2026
Change notification level with a link Feature notifications	11	2521	29 Enero 2026
API for Category based notification level update Development	9	2385	30 Octubre 2017
Make members of a group watch a category by default Feature completed	88	25540	21 Abril 2022

Hacer que una categoría de visualización sea más prominente para los usuarios

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