Suggestion: watched category auto-set when added to group

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It would be helpful if there was a setting when setting up a Group that let me set a Category that should be watched for any User that is added to the group.

We are a non-profit using Discourse to manage volunteers groups (and replacing mailing lists). When a person volunteers to join a group it would be easier if the category dedicated to discussion for that group started automatically notifying her of new activity. She can un-watch it if she wants, of-course, but it gets her started easier in the group flow.

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These two plugins (https://github.com/techAPJ/discourse-watch-category-rzim/,
https://github.com/amical/discourse-watch-category/) do that, though they need to be customized by modifying the code rather than in system settings.

Let me know if you want me to do that; it’s probably an hour or two, depending on how many groups we need to configure.

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My first goal is to see if it can be seen as valuable enough to adopt as a core setting.

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I wrote an RFC in this vein a while back:

Haven’t been able to find the development time for it yet, though.

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If it was a plugin would it fit into the UI of the Group Settings screen? Forgive my ignorance of how seamless plugins can be in the UI.

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This is now it built-in!
See Make members of a group watch a category by default - #92 by sam

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