Use Follow Delivery for Email and On-Site Preferences

Follow Delivery changes how each followed Topic or Category may reach you without deleting the underlying follow. Email and On-site delivery are independent per-follow switches.

These switches are not global overrides: the corresponding global notification channel must also remain enabled.

Open Follow Delivery

  1. Sign in and open Notifications.
  2. Scroll to Follow Delivery.
  3. For each followed Topic or Category, toggle Email: On/Off and On-site: On/Off independently.
  4. Confirm the Topic/Category remains followed after changing only its delivery switches.

Per-Follow Delivery Does Not Remove the Follow

QCLF updates only the subscription row’s email_enabled or onsite_enabled field. It does not change notify_replies, notify_live, or notify_new_topics.

That lets you keep a follow relationship while silencing one delivery channel.

Global Preferences Are Master Gates

A follower notification is eligible for a channel only when both the global channel preference and the per-follow delivery switch allow it. A per-follow Email switch cannot force delivery when global Email notifications are disabled; the same principle applies to On-site.

Relationships Are Rechecked

Email delivery revalidates the required follow/recipient relationship before sending. On-site history also revalidates subscription roles and Topic access before presenting pending/read entries.

If the follow is removed or access is lost, an old queued follower notification can be suppressed rather than delivered just because it was queued earlier.

Current Follow Delivery List

The panel combines accessible followed Topics and followed Categories, paginated 20 entries per page. Topic subscriptions are listed before Category subscriptions in the current implementation.

Community Discussion

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