Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):
- Use the (otherwise very cool) topic subscription feature to subscribe (at exactly one page) to a mass-posted topic, for example, Tech News: 2023-15 posted by MediaWikia message delivery bot on en-WP at the Village Pump. (Tech News threads probably don't get much conversation but I asked for clarification on an item and got such useful responses I subscribed.)
- Wait until some human user or archiving bot deletes or archives their own particular copies of the mass-posted topic.
- Check your notifications and observe the huge increase in volume...
What happens?:
For each and every deletion or archival of users' copies of the mass-post, wiki-wide, a notification appears, for example:
Topic "Tech News: 2023-15" was archived or removed from User talk: Jonesey95.
You might no longer receive notifications about this topic.
What should have happened instead?:
I should receive notifications for changes (edits, deletions, archival) to the thread only on the page where I subscribed.
Another editor at a thread I started suggested that " a more fine-grained time stamp for tracking subscriptions" might be a possible approach. Neither of us know how feasible that is, though.
