Turning on Guilded notifications shouldn't automatically make you join the group

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to make use of the Guilded notifications feature on Roblox groups without also accidentally joining groups which I did not intend to.

Upon attempting to enable notifications on a group, you are automatically made join the group (if you are not already a member). This is not communicated to the end-user until after the fact and in many cases is unwanted behaviour. I understand if there are current limitations requring users to be in a group to receive Guilded notifications however a better solution to this would be to inform the user that enabling notifications will add them to the group and to let the user decide if they wish to follow through with the action. Alternatively, if possible, group notifications could be unlinked from group membership; allowing users to receive notifications from groups which they may not necessarily have the group-space to join.

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because it would improve transparency of what enabling group notifications actually does and further clarify the ties between group membership and notifications.

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