On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 07:05:05PM +0100, Tom Hughes via devel wrote:
"Mailing list mode" was a specific thing in earlier versions of Discourse — it sent a notification for every message posted. This is kind of like going
It's still a thing in current versions, it just doesn't seem to be available in the Fedora installation.
It's hidden from the settings UI by default in new installs. Looks like it is still there as an option to enable, but I really do think it's kind of a trap.
If the category watch thing doesn't work for you (and others) for some reason, I can re-consider. If so, I might rename it to "email me everything that isn't muted" instead of "mailing list mode", though....
It also doesn't have to send you everything as you can mute those things you don't want to include.
That will at least keep you from getting thousands of Copr posts. :)
Having to positively opt in to certain tags seems like a terrible idea as you're bound to miss lots of things when people create new tags that you don't even know exist. I'd much rather get everything by default and then opt out of the things I'm not interested in.
In that case, subscribing by category should do the trick. Categories are not light-weight, so we're unlikely to create new ones without fanfare. It's not just one checkbox, but there are only a handful of main ones anyway.