I updated to beta8 on August 1 and that’s when notifications of type 17 (watching_first_post) stopped being triggered.
The latest watching_first_post notification I have on my site has timestamp 2023-07-31T08:00+02:00. Private message notifications (6) or new posts (9) don’t seem to be affected.
You can verify it with this SQL query:
select n.*
from notifications n
where n.notification_type = 17
order by created_at desc
limit 10
I’ve also gotten reports from users that they’ve stopped receiving notifications of watched categories in the past 3 days:
I’m afraid there isn’t a way to separate the two at the moment, though (as demonstrated by the linked topic above ) I think I would find it useful. My main use for disabling the category and/or tag edit notifications is when I do some tidying up of older topics, so I think my option would be for me to enter some kind of ninja mode when I’m moving those around so others can still use the forum as intended. Though I am not entirely sure on the practicalities of that.
I think it would make a good feature request though.