Watching First Post does not send push notifications

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Enable browser push notifications for User A.
  2. Set User A’s notification level for Category A to “Watching First Post”.
  3. Log in as User B (in incognito) and post in Category A (Post A)

Expected: User A would receive a browser push notification for Post A.
Actual: User A receives no browser push notification. Notifications (i.e. in the user menu) and email alerts work as expected.

Likely Cause

In the PostAlerter notify_first_post_watchers passes Notification.types[:watching_first_post] as the type to create_notification: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/services/post_alerter.rb#L133

create_notification restricts the creation of notification alerts to NOTIFIABLE_TYPES which does not include :watching_first_post: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/services/post_alerter.rb#L196

This may be intentional, however reading through this discussion, I suspect not?

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Any update on this one? I’d be happy to make a PR that adds watching_first_post to NOTIFIABLE_TYPES.

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This sounds like an oversight to me - watching first post should be exactly like watching… except only for the first post :wink: .

I think we can take the likes from Jeff and Sam to mean this is definitely #pr-welcome

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Made a PR for this: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6887

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Sure @david can you review?

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Merged, thanks @angus

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