Urgent: help troubleshoot missing notifications for watched categories

[wesochuck (Wes Osborn)]

You could probably script it with our API to cause people to watch the previous (n) topics in the category if needed. That is what I would recommend if it is needed.

This might work, we’ll dig into the API a bit and see what we can come up with, we’d probably see about coding it to watch every topic in that category.

Why not have a separate Discourse instance with just the content these folks are interested in on it? Not like you have to pay licensing fees for each Discourse install, though more sites is more work to some degree.

We plan to move to hosted at some point, so this makes this less viable.

I would like to hear more about the specific use case, the expectation is that if a new user joins and watches category X they are automatically interested in every X topic even ones from years ago?

In our case, the answer to this is yes, but we’re talking about a security group of 15 people with about 300 topics a year.

Are there a lot of people joining, and is there a lot of necro of old topics vs. creating new ones?

The churn rate seems to be about 2-3 people each year. Old topics are likely to get necro’d because these folks mostly live out of their email.

Thanks for the lead on the API stuff. If we come up with something we’ll update this thread.