Can one default categories to Ignoring instead of Watching?

[deiden26]

I would like to have most categories be ignored by default. So, for example, I might want this setup

• Announcements: Watching
• Questions: Ignoring
• General Discussion: Ignoring

I would even like to have the option of ignoring ALL categories by default, if that is the only way.

Thanks

[deiden26]

@julian ?

[pichalite]

@deiden26 it's not a simple change to accomplish that. Only the categories ignored are maintained at the user level.

You can create a plugin to listen for action hooks on new category creation and new user creation to do that.

On action:category.create... get a list of all users and call User.ignoreCategory for each user to add it to their ignoring categories list.

On action:user.create... get a list of all categories and call User.ignoreCategory for each category.

Obviously for all existing categories and users, you will have to write a one time script to do it.

[deiden26]

@pichalite Thanks. I will just disable the Unread section for now.

[exodo]

@deiden26 said in Can one default categories to Ignoring instead of Watching?:

I would like to have most categories be ignored by default. So, for example, I might want this setup

• Announcements: Watching
• Questions: Ignoring
• General Discussion: Ignoring

I would even like to have the option of ignoring ALL categories by default, if that is the only way.

Thanks

didnt test
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-category-optin

[pichalite]

yes... that plugin does what I summarized except the existing categories and users part.

[deiden26]

@exodo Thank you for finding that for me. That will be perfect

[deiden26]

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