And if my setting for newness is âI havenât viewed them yetâ?
Then tracking has no effect on ânewâ as everything that you havenât seen is considered ânewâ. All tracking will with âI havenât viewed them yetâ is determine whether or not to show unread count - which is of course affected by âAutomatically track topics I enterâ.
Okay, so tracking/watching overwrites the user preferences if in favour of display the indicator but not against it. Makes sense.
I guess another way of putting this is to say that the newness definition under preferences only applies to categories in their ânormalâ state, i.e. if they are neither tracked nor watched.
Note: the copy on mobile is now more consistent with the rest of the app and reads:
You will see a count of new replies because you are tracking this topic.
Yeah, I quietly submitted a PR a few months ago to fix that, didnât post here to avoid more bikeshedding:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4820
Iâve read the description of âWatching first postâ several times, as well as reading through this thread, and Iâm still confused about something.
Iâd like my users of one category to get notifications of new topics in that category, but not of all the reply posts on those topics (unless they post and get replied to, or they are mentioned, etc.).
The description of âwatching first postâ seems to imply that I can get notifications of the first response to every topic in a category, but there is no option to get notified of new topics in a category without âwatchingâ the category and thus getting notified of every new topic and every single post under those topics. Am I misunderstanding?
No. The first post is the first post. Itâs not the first reply.
Ah. Thanks. So, why doesnât it just say âget notified of new topicsâ or something, instead of talking about the âfirst post in each new topicâ as though thatâs a separate thing from the new topic?
Sure, if you think that copy is clearer, we can change it. Feel free to make specific proposals in a new reply to this topic.
Wait a second: it already says new topic in there:
the first post in each new topic
So basically youâre unclear what âfirst postâ means, you want to mentally ram âreplyâ in there somehow? Why? Yeah Iâm just gonna close this topic and save us both some grief.
Youâre welcome.