# Turn off all other notifications except group notifications

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-all-other-notifications-except-group-notifications/62372>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2017 年5 月 9 日 16:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-all-other-notifications-except-group-notifications/62372 "2017-05-09T16:59:54Z")\
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作者： ![Peter\_Backgren](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peter_backgren/32/66263_2.png) [@Peter\_Backgren](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Peter_Backgren)\
发布日期： [2017 年5 月 25 日 09:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-all-other-notifications-except-group-notifications/62372/12 "2017-05-25T09:06:40Z")

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My bad, I use the term notifications for anything arriving. Notifications work, it was the “new topics” the daily/weekly digests send out for categories a user has never visited that annoys people.

Partially this is because the site lives a lot at the moment like I explained above. Which again is because of all the different user groups being under one umbrella.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/1/a1ec91a57fd69c902510b8e30182d7fb20651dab.jpg)

_The real issue is the fear of losing users because Discourse is “too active” by default._

When I started with Discourse two years ago one of the first things I configured was getting rid of the daily digest just because it felt like spam (read: I’m an old effective dog that has been using computers since the early 80’s 😉 ). I suspect most users, even when instructed how to, are not capable of doing that. Since I actually think the digest is useful, when not having too much unnecessary stuff, I’ve set the User preferences default to 3 days instead of 1 day but that’s about the best I’ve been able to do (more than explain how to remove the digest altogether).

The thing here might also be that lots of users come from Facecrap and get really confused by Discourse. For them less is better. The main reason for people leaving has been “there is too much going on”.

Anyway, there’s not much point taking up developers valuable time for such a moot issue 😃 . This was more of an insight into how normal users and site admins might see things, which could or could not be valuable.

(It might be that messing around with user preferences like “default other new topic duration minutes” and starting to mute categories etc I might create something that works well enough - when I really only want to “mute all new categories by default for new and existing users”)

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