To later visitors looking for help: You can be notified of new releases by subscribing to the RSS feed: Release Notes RSS Feed (Direct Link) RSS Discussion | “New Version Notifications” | Discourse I’ve come to #support to give a heads-up that I subscribed to #release-notes at the Watching First Post notification level months ago. But I only got my first notification from Discourse today. I’ve missed many notifications I should have received.

It looks like the solution is in the split topic. :arrow_up:

[image] Michael: I subscribed to #release-notes at the Watching First Post notification level months ago. But I only got my first notification from Discourse today. I’ve missed many notifications I should have received. Weird. I watched (set to tracking) #marketplace for a few months and didn’t miss any topic.

I assumed this issue would be uncommon and difficult to reproduce. I just wanted to make some record and offer a solution. I’m not sure if there are similar #support requests or #bug 's. Also, I want to point out that I am specifically using “Watching First Post”. Perhaps Tracking works and Watching First Post does not.

As a temporary workaround, I see that #release-notes topics rarely have more than 1-2 posts, so maybe the regular watch or tracking option would work for you on that for now.

Looking at your preferences @zjpcyo, it seems you don’t have any categories set to Watching First Post? @moin has correctly pointed out that #release-notes is a tag and not a category, and I can see that is in your Tag Notifications as Watching First Post. :+1: I’m still not sure why you wouldn’t receive any notifications for it though? I shall investigate further. :face_with_monocle:

That is because #release-notes is a tag and not a category

[image] Jim Kleiber: maybe the regular watch or tracking option would work for you I’d like to be notified by e-mail. So I believe that excludes Tracking. I just want the announcements not the comments. That is why I chose Watching First Post instead of Watching. As a sidenote, the ?order=created parameter solves the problem of recent comments knocking the topics out of order. So if I want to peek at a topic list without subscribing, I can use that parameter in the address bar to sort topics by created date. Ex. https://meta.discourse.org/?order=created As a practical matter, #release-notes don’t appear to have that issue. But this can be useful in other cases. Ex. Manjaro releases category: [Screen capture of releases category on Manjaro Discourse. There is a split screen with the left side sorted by creation date and the right side using the default sort. Some comments on the right side bring older topics closer to the top of the view.] References How do I sort topics by created date or by title? | Discourse Example | Home Page Sorted by Created Date

I receive emails for releases but I’m set to ‘watching’ rather than ‘watch first’. The only responses to #release-notes topics are additional notes, so you won’t be bombarded with reply notification emails.

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zjpcyo (Michael) July 28, 2022, 3:16pm 11

It looks like the solution is in the split topic.

Topic		Replies	Views
'Watching' for first messages only Feature notifications	18	6370	November 5, 2015
Actual difference between "tracked" and "watching first post" Product Support	28	10860	December 15, 2018
'Watching First Post' on a Tag does not work dependably Bug	4	752	July 26, 2022
Not receiving notifications for announcements Bug	12	2370	July 24, 2018
"Watching" for topics, but not posts? Product Support notifications	6	361	May 15, 2025

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