Watching and tracking implementation for tags and categories

[david (David Taylor)]

@sniepoort

could you reference the commit

@sniepoort In trying to track down the source of issues I’m having here, I found the commit you’re after

FEATURE: improved tag and category watching and tracking

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Also see:

(Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically

Following the release of Discourse v2.4.0.beta7 (or if you have this commit), admins now have the option to set the category tracking levels of all existing users when setting the default category tracking levels in their site settings: Add a category to one of the following site settings, then select the green checkbox button. [10%20PM] A modal window will pop up with the following options: [10%20PM]

The old way using the console

Discourse allows you to specify default…

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@sam

Any old topics tracking state records that are in “tracking” or “regular” in that category become “watched” (with “you are watching this category” reason)

Is the following also true when opting to just Track a whole category?

Any old topics tracking state records that are in “regular” in that category become “tracked” (with “you are tracking this category” reason).

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

I think so, but you got to test it.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Sure maybe @jomaxro can assist in testing it, once he’s around more.

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Just entered a completely unread topic and it was already tracked. Seems to be working as expected.