Watching PM function not triggering notifications

[dax (Daniela)]

@WorldIsMine

I remember this worked a few versions ago without the need of being invited/tagged, so was this an intentional change?

See,

How to set and use group mentions and messages

I guess you should be able to change it via plugin. Here’s the relevant commit: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5640166b278a0c5f0d084167712a372cafd752fe

@WorldIsMine

where an admin isn’t invited/tagged

SO, yes, if you are not invited you can’t be notified.