Newly-created "unlisted" Topics send "new topic" Notifications

[Moin]

Well, unlisted means hidden from the topic list. I think it doesn’t suppress any on-site notifications (@mentions, quotes, replies, links, likes, …).

When would users be notified of the topic if not when it’s created? Unlisting doesn’t trigger notifications

Discourse doesn't send notifications after an unlisted topic is listed

I’ve given the initial bug report a run-through and it seems to be working as usual. As test user (TL1), set a category to Watching First Post As admin, create a new topic in that category and toggle it as ‘Unlisted’ before posting A notification is sent out to the test user: [notification for new topic (unlisted)] The test user also receives notifications of Likes, Mentions and Replies for things while the topic was Unlisted as well: [notification from Unlisted] You wouldn’t normally g…

Users notified of unlisted topic creation

I’m afraid this isn’t a bug, and is working as intended. Creating an Unlisted topic removes the topic from topic and search lists, but will still send a notification to anyone Watching/Watching First Post for the category (or tag). I believe the advice for creating a topic you don’t want people to see in advance is to use a permission-controlled category (eg staff) and to manually recategorise it when ready, or Schedule Publishing from the topic timer. You can also use the Shared Draft feature …