No need to code. There is a plugin called autosubscribe to groups, which will subscribe new members to the groups Admin sets in the plugin settings.
Note it will only autosubscribe New members.
You can set this up to subscribe members to a group which only contains discussions as Uddhava suggests
susan..thanks ill check it out
try vanilla forum integrated with elgg. Its the best forum available to elgg now.
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