I'm making this as a bug because the UI lies to you. The bug part is actually I guess in og_notifications, but I think we should fix it in Commons.

To reproduce:

  1. Install Commons
  2. Try to subscribe to the "Community" group
  3. Notice it says "All content types" in the form, but in fact it doesn't save anything

The issue (which took some serious grepping and code diving) is that you need to go to:
admin/messaging/notifications/content to enable content types for notifications.

I don't think anyone besides a Drupal developer would figure this out.
The bug in og_notifications should be fixed so it doesn't lie to you, but Commons is about an out-of-the-box solution. So we know what content types are being installed, let's allow notifications for the ones that make sense during install.

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greggles
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Title: As an administrator, I would like to have notifications and messaging working out of the box and not have to hunt for it » As an administrator, I would like notifications enabled for some content types so users get notifications of content in their og

Slightly different title. I think it matches the goal a bit more.

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ezra-g commented
Issue tags: +Commons 2.7 radar

This is definitely frustrating.

Luckily, the solution is simple: we can export the og_notifications_content_types variable with the desired enabled setting.

Tagging for the 2.7 release.