Continuing the discussion from Weird behavior for group private messages : I am witnessing further “wierd” behaviour for groups private message settings. There seem to be two entirely separate notification settings for group. It might be a bug, it seems to be related to this one Unable to set noti…

The setting on the group page is the default, so when someone is newly added to a group, that’s his setting. Any member can then configure this setting separately on the inbox page – that’s what counts in the end.

Aha - that now makes sense, I am only seeing the Admin options there under the group… thank you so much, I was just going around in circles… :slight_smile:

Looking at this, it seems that the option to configure ones own settings on the team inbox page is only available to Admins too - so in other words normal members just get the notification setting that they are given, and cannot change it - interesting… also probably how I would like it to be so I a…

Weird – that should be available to any member, at least after the first message has arrived. Can you post a screenshot of that page as seen from a non-admin account?

I have this feeling I am going to be wrong on this - will have a look now and report back, thanks.

So here is my test member… matt892 There is something wrong here, but I think what is wrong is that his group inbox is not appearing at all - despite him having received a few group messages from me. [image] and he’s a member of the group and has access to the in the group card messages… [imag…

Weird, I’m out of ideas right now. Maybe someone else can help?

OK! I am very grateful for your push in the correct direction. This problem is minor compared to what I was grappling with before!

Hi Felix - turns out that it was a bug. But the team fixed it four days ago :slight_smile: [image] Group Inboxes in User Messages bug We’ll now display the group tabs for non staff users under the user’s messages tab as well. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commi…

Notification Settings for Groups - Seems to be two separate settings

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jerry0 (Jerry) May 21, 2018, 6:39pm 11

Hi Felix - turns out that it was a bug. But the team fixed it four days ago

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Notification Settings for Groups - Seems to be two separate settings

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