Notification on new topic
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Hello
It seems you can currently get notifications for:
- someone you follow posts a new topic
- someone replies to a watched topic
..but no option for a notification on a new topic (in a watched category).
Like many forums we have an announcement forum. Our users probably won't be checking the board very often, but would like the option of an e-mail when a new announcement topic is posted.
I've tried the nodebb-plugin-category-notifications which adds it's own "subscribe" option to categories. The main problem with this is it also sends an e-mail for any replies to topics too, which users don't want (they want to know new topics, but not have an inbox full of everyone's replies to it).
Can a "new topic in watched category" notification be added to the core notification system? It'll be less confusing for users (needing to use a separate "subscribe" button from the plugin) and better integrated (they can choose if they want a notification or e-mail, rather than the admin deciding for them via the plugin) and uses the existing "watched" method.
I'd hope new topics alerts would be a fairly popular addition?
Matt
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I think it makes sense, although on a default nodebb install all categories are considered watched for all users so this new notification type would have to be set to
Noneinstead ofEmail and/or Notificationor everyone would receive notifications for all new topics. Another option is to change the default for categories from watching to not watching.Can you open an issue here https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues
