Users notified of unlisted topic creation

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Looks like, and here’s another one!

Fresh unlisted topics get emailed to 'watch first post'

I think this is a bug related to behaviour that others have noted… Situation: Have global notifications category that only admin/management can post in, set every user to watch first post to ensure emails go out. If I create a topic toggled as unlisted (from topic create, before it’s ever made public), it still sends email notifications. The goal is to have the team wiki the announcement before it’s published per se, but sending it out a rough draft is a bit annoying. Alternatively we can hav…

And here listed as solution to not send notifications is incorrectly listed to set as unlisted before posting is supposed to not notify the watchers:

Unlisted topic is visible in notification popup if a category is watched?

I’m a bit confused here. If I recall correctly, the toggle I shared above was added to address your exact complaint. It allows you to create a topic that is unlisted when it is created, thus preventing notifications. It’s not a workaround… Edit: Here’s the topic: