Slack notifications for updates even after unwatch Conflunce page

[Jim Hoagland]

This is my scenario as a user of my company's Confluence space and that has the Confluence Slack bot installed into my Slack:

1. I create a new page.  At this point I would get notified if someone else where to update the page, but I don't want that (especially don't want to get distracted by this noice when I am trying to focus).
2. I unwatch the page and confirm that I am no longer watching it.
3. I still get notifications whenever someone update the page (even if has been more than an hour since I unwatched).

What I expected was to stop being notified of changes after I unwatched.

[Akbar Gulaliyev · Accepted solution]

Hello, @Jim Hoagland !

Did you check if you are the owner of the page? Maybe that's the reason.

[Jim Hoagland]

I am the owner of the page since I created it.  I unwatched it though, so it doesn't seem like I should continue getting Slack notifications of updates.

[Akbar Gulaliyev]

Most probably your Confluence app for Slack has notifications turned on the pages you created. Try to find it in your notifications preferences or change the owner of the page (Transfer ownership of a page from one user to another | Confluence Cloud | Atlassian Support) if you want to stop notifications only from this page.

Let me know if it worked for you.

[Jim Hoagland]

So, are the Slack direct notifications totally unrelated to the watch settings for a page?  If so, that can be confusing.

I had forgotten (or never knew) there are some configuration options only see with `/confluence notify`.  I have disabled direct notifications for pages I create.  We'll have to see if that helps after the next time I create a page someone edits later; maybe next Monday with a team status page for the week.

[Jim Hoagland]

Disabling direct notifications for pages I create Confluence Slack app helped.  Intuitively though, I still think that unwatching should have disabled notifications.

Also, I can imagine in the future wanting to see updates to most pages I create, but not the weekly team status report pages that I sometimes create.