# Notify users participating in a topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [March 21, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629 "2017-03-21T17:05:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@designbygio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/designbygio)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/1 "2017-03-21T17:05:06Z")
Is there a way to notify all users who reply to a specific topic?
Something similar to the Slack’s `@here` or `@channel`
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/2 "2017-03-21T17:31:14Z")
No there is not. I’ve moved this to #Contribute > Feature.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/3 "2017-03-22T14:21:13Z")
The Discourse equivalent should probably be @topic. Could be very useful for mods and admins, but I wouldn’t want it on by default for any lower trust level.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/4 "2018-03-07T21:44:29Z")
I think I would like this feature with 2 caveats.
1. Default disabled for entire forum
2. Ability to enable it per category
I can see it being very useful for internal discussions where people are not default watching.
The tricky thing though is that @here could mean
1. People tracking topic or above + people who participated
2. People who participated
And then there is the question of mutes which clearly should be bypassed.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/5 "2018-03-08T03:07:46Z")
Yeah I would wait on this feature, because there is already a _much safer_ way to accomplish virtually the same goal – create a group and enable group mentions.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/6 "2018-03-08T08:08:33Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> People who participated
This should be safe assuming it’s only available to higher trust levels by default, like TL3.
I think there’s a legitimate use case for @here every time we are wrapping up a feature topic that got completed. UserVoice does the same thing, even with email send outs, when a feature story has concluded.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/7 "2018-03-08T08:58:20Z")
The verb is quite wrong and derived from chat presence – are those people really “here”? We’d need to start with better words.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/8 "2018-03-08T09:02:38Z")
Well [my original suggestion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/3) was @topic, which I feel makes a lot of sense. IMO that is what the command should be, and we could hardcode `@here` to suggest @topic so that the chatty folks can catch on quick.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/9 "2018-03-08T09:35:25Z")
One slight issue I have here is that if you really cared you would watch the topic, so this indicates that we need some sort of mode where you do not care but we force the caring upon you
In other words, why is watching not good enough?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/10 "2018-03-08T10:05:00Z")
I see what you mean, there is slim difference indeed between typing `@topic` and typing 4-5 different individual `@name` mentions.. **on a topic with 6 people, including yourself** , it wouldn’t be crazy or particularly difficult to manually name mention everyone who participated in the topic. And that’s totally allowed.
Where it gets weird is **when the topic has 20, 50, 100 people participating.** Then we’d need to pop a REAL BIG warning about notifications, like we do for groups – or even disallow it entirely as too noisy. And possibly only staff could do a `@topic` mention, or very highly trusted users, similar to the caution we have by _not_ allowing enormous `@groupname` notifications by default, unless the group owner enables it.
As long as it is off by default and has to be explicitly enabled by the site owners I don’t see much risk. I am a bit unclear where / how that would be enabled though. Per category doesn’t seem totally right?
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/11 "2022-03-26T13:29:46Z")
Just for documentation, this feature request was implemented a couple of months ago – see [2.8.0.beta9: Tag Descriptions, Recent Searches, Sticky Avatars, and more](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-8-0-beta9-tag-descriptions-recent-searches-sticky-avatars-and-more/210700#here-support-7)
> ### @here support
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> Users can now mention @here to notify 10 people who replied to the topic. Admins can manage permission to use the @here mention, and the number of users mentioned, via the `max_here_mentioned` and `min_trust_level_for_here_mention` site settings.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/12 "2022-03-29T07:29:38Z")