In a Support discussion titled “Publish a topic without triggering notifications?”, tophee asks if it’s possible to publish a topic without triggering notifications or having it appear under “Latest”. They note that manually adjusting the publication date might hide it from “Latest”, but are unsure if it prevents notifications. zogstrip questions the reasoning, noting that publishing is designed to behave like a regular post — triggering notifications and appearing in “Latest”. tophee explains that most users receive content via email and rarely log in; they want to publish background info that’s searchable but not pushed out, to avoid confusion like “Why am I getting this? I already know this.” In post 4, tophee speculates whether publishing as “unlisted” might avoid notifications and “Latest”, then unlisting it later — but wonders if unlisting would trigger notifications or if the topic would still appear in summary emails. They acknowledge that summary emails may be unavoidable eventually. No definitive solution is confirmed in the thread, leaving the question open for further suggestions or workarounds.
Is there any way to publish a topic without triggering any notifications and without it coming up under “Latest”?
I suppose the latter is achieved by changing the date manually. But I’m not sure if this will also prevent notifications from going out…
Publishing a topic is supposed to act as if you were posting it (thus the bump in Latest and the notifications).
Why do you not want that?
Most users are using our forum via email (not in mailinglist mode but they rarely log in). Now I want to publish a topic with some basic background information that is just supposed to be available if someone looks for it but which should not be sent out because it would probably confuse people, like “Why are you sending me this? I already have that information.”
So I guess there is no solution for this?
Or how about this: if I publish the topic as unlisted it will neither trigger a notification nor show up on /latest, right? So if I then “un-unlist” the topic, will it trigger notifications? It will show up on /latest, but not if I change the publication date to something further back, right?
What about summary emails, though? I suppose it can’t really be prevented from coming up there, at some point.