Disabling and re-enabling automatic topic subscriptions prevents you from becoming re-subscribed
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	ppelberg
	Nov 18 2021, 3:05 AM

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Verify Automatic Topic Subscriptions are enabled
Start a new discussion or comment in an existing one
Notice you have been automatically subscribed to said discussion
Click the [ unsubscribe ] affordance that appears within the heading of the discussion you were automatically subscribed to in step "3."
Disable Automatic Topic Subscriptions within Special:Preferences
Re-enable Automatic Topic Subscriptions within Special:Preferences
Comment in the discussion you started or commented in in step "2."

Actual

❗️Notice you have NOT been automatically re-subscribed to the discussion you engaged with in step "7."

Expected

✅Notice you have been automatically re-subscribed to the discussion you engaged with in step "7."

Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T233447 [OKR] Increase response rates
Resolved	• Whatamidoing-WMF	T295428 [Announcement] Make Volunteers Aware Automatic Topic Subscriptions are Available
Duplicate	None	T295951 Disabling and re-enabling automatic topic subscriptions prevents you from becoming re-subscribed

@ppelberg: It was mentioned as intentional behavior on the team slack channel, when I raised it there.

In T295951#7513946, @Ryasmeen wrote:

@ppelberg: It was mentioned as intentional behavior on the team slack channel, when I raised it there.

You're right, @Ryasmeen. As such, I'm going to merge this task with the task (T295950) where we are planning to revise this behavior.