Only get notifications for one thread of a Discussion

[timmc-edx]

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Product Feedback

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When I leave an "answer" on a Discussion, I start getting flooded with comments on other answers. This is a really bad scene when the "Question" is actually a GitHub user-feedback link that's shown to thousands of users.

I'd like a way to subscribe only to the threads I'm active in and not to the entire Discussion post overall.

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[jlceaser]

Strongly agree. This is a real pain point, especially on high-traffic
Discussions like the ones linked from GitHub's own feedback prompts.

The current behavior is essentially: leave one answer → get subscribed
to every future comment on the entire Discussion. On popular threads,
that means dozens of unrelated notifications flooding your inbox.

What would make sense is a thread-level subscription model, similar to
how it works on forums like Discourse or even Reddit:

• Comment on a specific thread → subscribe to replies on that thread
  only
• Explicitly subscribe to the whole Discussion → get everything
  (opt-in, not default)
• Unsubscribe from the Discussion but stay subscribed to your thread →
  currently not possible

Right now the only options are "Subscribed" or "Unsubscribed" at the
Discussion level, which is too coarse. You either get everything or
nothing — there's no middle ground.

This becomes especially problematic when:

• A Discussion has 50+ answers from different users
• GitHub links thousands of users to a single feedback Discussion
• You only care about replies to your answer

A per-thread subscription toggle (or at minimum, "only notify me about
replies to my comments") would solve this cleanly.

[joshka]

Dupe #3150 - I'd suggest voting there.

[timmc-edx]

Thanks for the pointer, but also oof... open for 5 years.

[joshka]

(I had another dupe on a FR for the same problem where someone pointed me to that :))