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…

[immagine] 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…

[immagine] 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 w…

[immagine] 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 …

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

[immagine] 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 …

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…

[immagine] 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 possibl…

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. [immagine] Discourse Watch Category Button Theme component disco…

Rendere più prominente la categoria visualizzata per gli utenti.

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pacharanero (Marcus Baw) 30 Gennaio 2026, 1:36pm 11

Ho creato di recente un TC che consente allo Staff di creare un pulsante “Segui questa categoria” in qualsiasi post. Lo sto usando nei miei Discourse per rendere il Seguire più facile da scoprire per gli utenti meno esperti di tecnologia.

Argomento		Risposte	Visualizzazioni
Notification setting button with context UX	5	997	Gennaio 30, 2026
Discourse Watch Category Button Theme component	0	102	Gennaio 29, 2026
Change notification level with a link Feature notifications	11	2521	Gennaio 29, 2026
API for Category based notification level update Development	9	2385	Ottobre 30, 2017
Make members of a group watch a category by default Feature completed	88	25540	Aprile 21, 2022

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