Not receiving notifications for announcements

[david (David Taylor)]

I would guess that the post is being drafted either as a PM or a ‘shared draft’, and therefore notifications are not being sent. See here:

Does reassigning a category send a new email out to the group watching the new category?

On my dev instance I just tried these steps: User1 sets “Announcements” category to “Watching” User2 performs these actions: Private message (publish timer) Create a private message with self, set timer to publish to “Announcements” Staff only topic (publish timer) Create a topic in a staff only category, set timer to publish to “Announcements” Private message (manual publish) Create a private message with self, click Make Public Topic (screenshot here) This creates a public “Unc…

and more recently here:

Notifications when a topic is recategorized

I think this is the same issue discussed here: I wonder if this also applies to publishing topics created using the shared drafts feature…

It looks like @tgxworld applied a related fix here

Notifications when a topic is recategorized

@simon I fixed it in https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ee1eb1a5bd834ed49e7efe2ee58bb567556a8c7c

I just tried a few things locally:

• Watching announcements
  • “Make PM Public”, then recategorise to announcements
  • No notification received
• Watching #annoucements
  • “Publish shared draft”
  • Notification received
• Watching first post announcements
  • “Publish shared draft”
  • Notification not received