Watching group PMs by default

[steko (Stefano Costa)]

I can add my support for improving this, after I had to deal with some confused users. I also note that in my case (rather small group) I would have been happy to change tracking state manually, but that doesn’t seem to work, as per:

Changing tracking state of group inbox updates your own tracking state instead

As an administrator, you can see the tracking state another user has for a group inbox. You can also update it, which is useful because the default is just “Tracking”. However, this updating no longer works. Reproduction steps: Be an administrator. Be in a group. Have another user that is also in the group. Visit /users/the-other-user/messages/group/the-group. See the tracking state in the upper-right corner. It is accurate. Update the tracking state. Expected result: The user’s tracking st…