Moving users from Whatsapp to Discourse Chat

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

Unfortunately, you can’t set the defaults at the site level (or indeed at the Channel level) - only at the user level.

I don’t think that anything has changed since this:

@nathank

@JBM

on the chat: you have to specifically specify a group or a person in each message for him to be notified.

That is configurable, albeit not easily.

For personal chats, the default is being auto-notified for every message. This can be turned down for each chat thread by the user.

For channels, the default is as you describe. Users can change that to every message if they wish.

The last time I looked, the only way to change the default behaviour was to delve into the Rails console. Getting this into the UI could be a worthy feature request

Of note, you can work around this by using the @all mention (notifies all those in the Channel).

I’d encourage someone to put in a formal request in Feature describing what you need it to do.