Say I would like to see topics in categories I muted. How would I do that? On Meta, I muted the News and Events > Forum summaries category. But going to /?state=muted nor /filter?q=in%3Amuted show them. How then would I see all muted categories, if there’s more than one so going to the catgory page …

Right there’s a bit of a gap here, ?state=muted only covers topics muted directly… but topics from muted categories are excluded. So what you’re trying to get is a list of topics from all muted categories?

I see. I would have expected a link next to Muted categories to go to a place that shows me topics in those categories, or similar. But yes, that is what I am trying to acheieve.

@awesomerobot I’m assuming there simply is no way to do this unless something custom is built?

The concept of tracking the status of categories, tags, and topics and how they interact is complicated. I think the individual topic tracking status takes precedence over the others, but the other two depend on another user preference. So it is possible that the user has read some topics even thou…

Then all of the “show” links could be removed. None of them is really about the categories. The watching link doesn’t take you to topics from categories you are watching; it takes you to the topics you are watching—which can be because you watch topics in that category by default, but also because y…

How do I access topics in muted categories?

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awesomerobot (Kris) 25 augustus 2026 om 22:38 6

Correct, we should really just remove that link because it’s not accurate… a route to show all the topics from muted categories would be a new feature we don’t currently have

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Muted topic is completely hidden Support	11	2097	9 januari 2023
Filter view for muted categories Feature	6	1636	31 juli 2020
Muted categories not respected in Top lists Feature	6	704	7 mei 2020
Tags page shows total number of topics with tags, but can't find them if they are from muted categories Support	7	567	14 maart 2025
Possible Bug in Parent Category Mute Bug	5	484	6 september 2022

How do I access topics in muted categories?

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