Hya folks, I’m a new member on the site. So far this seems like a great community, and I’m happy to be a part of it.
One question though–How do I disable the deluge of notifications for silly badges? I want to be notified when someone mentions me in a post, but I don’t benefit from periodic interruptions that let me know I’ve “Earned Basic” or “Earned First Like” or “Earned Read Guidelines” or “Earned First Mention.” Is there a way to turn this off?
Welcome! I don’t think this is possible, unfortunately. It looks like this is an outstanding feature request for the discourse software we use:
You might take solace in the fact that there probably aren’t many more to go - I just checked my own profile and it looks like I’ve got ~10 of these “first X” badges, including more arcane ones like first wiki edit or first flagged post, so hopefully this will peter out quite quickly.
Perhaps it’s only about email notifications, they can be switched off in the preferences.
Coming back to this particular ask, I think many of the new-user badges can be skipped with this setting in your user preferences at the bottom:
You would think so, but I unchecked that the day I signed up, and I’m still getting notifications for things like “Earned First Emoji”.
Wait, actually, upon reflection, does unchecking the box about new user onboarding tips and badges turn notifications on?
Yes, discourse likes to put its settings in negative way — you need to enable it to skip the tips and badges. That said, I’m not entirely sure which notifications this skips.
