Having used Discourse for ~1 year, I’ve underestimated category notification levels, both in terms of how much there is to comprehend, and how much they influence the user experience - too low, and things seem dead, but too high, and people (and spam filters!) get snarky at the quantity of emails.
I’ve created this table to break down the differences between the various options. I’ve been testing it for a few weeks, and I’m mostly confident it’s accurate (which is to say there’s a good chance it’s inaccurate).
Does anyone (a) know of a similar or better resource, or (b) have any edits / updates / suggestions to make this more accurate?
There’s some Notification info in the New User Guide that may be useful.
Maybe some links to the sections in Preferences where you can change the settings may be good? (you can make them generic for your site by adding ‘my’ instead of u/username - eg https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/notifications)
Thanks @JammyDodger.
This is great info, that will be very helpful in training up our users. I think I’ll still add in more info about category level notifications, but you’ve definitely made my task easier.
Thanks for taking time with the links.
Watched（也许可以重命名为“已发送邮件和通知”？）
您将收到这些类别中所有活动的通知（在论坛上），并且还会收到所有活动的电子邮件。新帖子的计数也将显示在主题旁边。在 CC 论坛上：此设置可能会产生大量电子邮件流量，因此仅用于您希望接收所有活动电子邮件通知的类别。建议用于工坊购票类别，如果您希望接收有关后续票务可用情况的通知和电子邮件。
Tracked（重命名为“已通知”？）
您将不会收到这些类别中活动的电子邮件。新帖子的计数将显示在主题旁边，并在主页的“新”部分显示。在 CC 论坛上：建议用于您想跟踪但不想收到电子邮件的大多数类别。
Watching first post（重命名为“发送第一帖子的邮件，否则通知”？）
您将收到这些类别中每个新主题的第一帖子的通知（在论坛上），并且还会收到电子邮件。在 CC 论坛上：建议用于工坊购票类别，除非您还希望收到后续额外票务发布的电子邮件（在这种情况下，这些类别应设置为“Watched”）。
Muted
您将不会收到这些类别中新主题的任何通知，它们也不会出现在类别或最新页面上。您将不会收到这些类别中任何活动的电子邮件。对于 CC 论坛：不建议使用，除非有特定原因。
