I noticed on my forum that when a category is muted, topics from that category still show up in summary emails. This is unexpected behavior because my assumption is that muted categories, which is defined as never being notified about new topics in this category, wouldn’t show up in the summary ema…

[image] debryc: I noticed on my forum that when a category is muted, topics from that category still show up in summary emails. From looking at the code, it seems that muted topics are supposed to be excluded from the summary email. Note that it is muted topics that are excluded, not topics t…

[image] simon: Where this could be significant is if a user who has muted a category has interacted with one of that category’s topics in a way that would set their notification level for the topic to anything other than muted. I would expect topic-level watching, etc., to override a category…

[image] simon: From looking at the code, it seems that muted topics are supposed to be excluded from the summary email. Note that it is muted topics that are excluded, not topics that are in muted categories . Where this could be significant is if a user who has muted a category has interacted w…

[image] debryc: I mute categories because I’m not interested, so I wouldn’t want to see them in my summary email either. Same here. I would neither expect nor desire to see them in my summary email.

Do you know if muted category topics are showing up in your forums’ summary emails? I’m wondering if it’s me or if it’s something that’s part of Discourse.

Hello, I’ve moved this topic to Contribute > Feature because my tests all show that topics in muted categories continue to show up. This is really high priority for our community!

Hmm, can we have someone double-check this code path next week @zogstrip ? That shouldn’t be happening..

@nbianca can you add that to your list?

I checked our code and can confirm that: digests DO NOT include muted topics (see code) digests DO NOT include topics from muted categories (see code) digests DO NOT include watched topics from muted categories, but they will

[image] nbianca: digests DO NOT include topics from muted categories (see code) Unfortunately, while this is the code, my users are definitely getting topics from muted categories in their summary email as of this morning. Is this reproducible on your end? Maybe it makes a difference if the …

Prevent topics of muted categories from showing up in summary email

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JammyDodger February 13, 2024, 3:48pm 15

There’s also the digest suppress categories admin setting, which sounds like it could be useful here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Do posts from a category that you are tracking show up in the summary email even if that category is suppressed via admin settings? Product Support	2	778	October 4, 2019
Suppressed category included in digest Bug activity-summary	3	718	November 2, 2021
Question about muting a category Product Support	4	1490	February 2, 2017
How do I access topics in muted categories? Product Support	6	250	August 25, 2026
Muted categories should not hide Tracked/Watched topics Feature	30	4473	July 11, 2025

Prevent topics of muted categories from showing up in summary email

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