I moderate another forum (very low volume) that also uses Discourse and I wanted to create a flow to check it to see if there were any new posts. I put it together and it works very well, so I made anotehr copy for the BF forum (had to add a bit of extra code to handle sticky posts) and here is the result.
The attached flow will check the forum for new topics every 5 minutes and send an alert. It's currently using the 'sysmessage' node sending OSXAlerts since I'm using a Mac, but you should be able to change it to alert you any way you want.
Paul
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