Are email notifications supposed to be sent if I set a category on “tracking” in my account? Currently it doesn’t. EDIT: Bringing my post below up here: The wording of the two mislead me to believe that “tracking” is supposed to do more (it’s also higher placed in the config pane). I can confirm t…

@codinghorror any comments on the two subscription levels I mentioned? It looks to me that the funcitonality of “tracking” is included in the “watch first post” (both show counts of new replies), but the config pane reads as if the “tracking” does more, and is positioned higher than “watch first pos…

It says what tracking means right there A count of new posts will appear next to the topic.

Just noticed that on mobile it says this when you are tracking a topic: You will receive notifications because you are tracking this topic. Seems like a ux bug.

You will receive a form of notification, that is, the topic will appear in your unread tab. … and tracking is the current state of your notification preference for that topic.

Ugh… The term notify/notification is used to mean something much more specific everywhere else in the app (including the dropdown text). Using it to mean something different here really muddies the waters in my opinion.

[صورة] nordize: so I’m not sure what’s the difference between the two, it seems “watch 1st post” subsumes “tracking”. Watching First Post will give you a notification, and assuming all email settings are default, an email when a topic is created in that category. After the first notification …

He has a point that Watching First Post might be a superset of tracking, with the only watch level notification on first post only.

[صورة] codinghorror: He has a point that Watching First Post might be a superset of tracking, with the only watch level notification on first post only. Indeed, and in that case I was proposing that the descriptions given in the preferences could be improved because right now they are confusi…

Consider me confused… Back when Watching First Post (then Following) was first developed, it was independent of Tracking. I requested that there be an option to choose tracking or normal after the first notification, but that was not shared as an option. From what I can tell on my instance, after…

Actual difference between "tracked" and "watching first post"

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nordize (Nordize) 17 أبريل 2017، 12:53ص 14

But (like I said in my post) both “watch first post” and “tracking” show a count new posts next to the topic (tested in 1.8.0.beta10+57) … so I’m not sure what’s the difference between the two, it seems “watch 1st post” subsumes “tracking”.

الموضوع		الردود	مرات العرض
'Watching' for first messages only Feature notifications	19	5964	5 نوفمبر 2015
Get notified of new topics, but not posts Feature	61	15942	19 نوفمبر 2016
Spooky tracking happenings :ghost: Bug	15	3332	10 نوفمبر 2018
When changing category watch state, prompt to also change state of all topics in that category at the time of change Feature	23	4973	8 يوليو 2016
Send me an email for every new post and tracking Site feedback	12	7686	4 أكتوبر 2018

Actual difference between "tracked" and "watching first post"

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